Debt

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• Making a case against unsustainable debt

  We’re at a strange, dangerous point when it comes to debt in the United States. It’s accepted that, if you are a middle-class (or poorer) striver, you and your children will be deeply in debt for large periods of your lives. First, student loans. The ... (read full critics)

  boston published on Thu, 21 Jul 2011

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  When you are dealing with the so called 'Great Questions' about human nature, a comprehensive and thorough account of the latter is fundamental, otherwise you end up with the strange fantasies of most Western philosophers of the last centuries and contemporary economists. Also you end up with pernic ... (continue)

  When you are dealing with the so called 'Great Questions' about human nature, a comprehensive and thorough account of the latter is fundamental, otherwise you end up with the strange fantasies of most Western philosophers of the last centuries and contemporary economists. Also you end up with pernicious moral consequences. In this book, David Graeber goes through a very wide (and therefore very compelling) anthropological record of the most diverse facets that the phenomenon of debt has assumed throughout history, questioning the ethical dimension that it has assumed in very recent time. I think that its timeliness and importance are great considering the fact that debt is always at the center of political and moral debates as well as being something for which the world economic structure is what it is.

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• English Books
• Others 544 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1933633867
• ISBN-13: 9781933633862
• Publisher: Melville House Pub
• Pub date: Jan 25, 2011

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