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Debt : The First 5000 Years
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ISBN: 1351350374 1351352164 1912281112 Year: 2017 Publisher: : Macat Library,

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Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central to grasping the way in which our society really works. David Graeber's contribution to this debate is to apply his anthropologists' training to the understanding of a phenomenon often considered purely from an economic point of view. In this respect, the book can be considered a fine example of the critical thinking skill of problem-solving. Graeber's main aim is to undermine the dominant narrative, which sees debt as the natural – and broadly healthy – outcome of the development of a modern economic system. He marshals evidence that supports alternative possibilities, and suggests that the phenomenon of debt emerged not as a result of the introduction of money, but at precisely the same time. This in turn allows Graeber to argue against the prevailing notion that economy and state are fundamentally separate entities. Rather, he says, "the two were born together and have always been intertwined" – with debt being a means of enforcing elite and state power. For Graeber, this evaluation of the evidence points to a strong potential solution: there should be more readiness to write off debt, and more public involvement in the debate over debt and its moral implications.

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Debt --- Money --- History. --- Graeber, David.


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As If Already Free : Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber
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ISBN: 9780745348506 9780745348469 Year: 2023 Publisher: London, England : Pluto Press,

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A new look at a brilliant radical legacy.


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L'anarchie - pour ainsi dire : conversations avec Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky et Assia Turquier-Zauberman
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ISBN: 9782889280452 2889280454 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : Diaphanes,

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Tant par ses grands concepts comme ceux de la dette, de la bureaucratie ou des bullshit jobs, que par son implication cruciale dans le mouvement Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber était l'un des plus influents penseurs de notre temps. Au contraire de bien d'intellectuels « engagés », il était l'un des très rares à avoir fait preuve d'une efficacité militante à répercussion mondiale.Se revendiquant depuis toujours anarchiste, dans ce livre d'entretiens avec Assia Turquier-Zauberman, Nika Dubrovsky et Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Graeber parle tant sur l'histoire de l'anarchie que sur sa pertinence contemporaine et sur son avenir; tant sur les liens qui unissent l'anthropologie à l'anarchisme qu'aux « traces ADN » de celui-ci dans le mouvement d'OWS ou dans celui des Gilets jaunes; sur la signification de l'éthique anarchiste non seulement dans sa portée politique, mais esthétique et artistique, sexuelle et amoureuse...Avec une verve étonnante de vivacité, de drôlerie et d'érudition, le présent livre contribue à redéfinir les contours de ce que pourrait être, comme le disait Kropotkine, une « morale anarchiste » aujourd'hui.

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