Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
Description: Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded examines the historical origins and social role of debt, tracing its development from ancient times through various economic systems. The book provides an extended analysis of how debt shaped human relationships and economies over millennia
ISBN: 9781612194196
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· 2019-07-10
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Interesting bit about money since it's mentioned in there: Most economics give the same version in the notes which is that money just kind of _sprang up_ out of no where to solve this problem of trade, but it's actually very likely that Credit, and therefore also Debt, is the source of "money". That money only became more important as trade extended from tribes and to strangers we didn't trust. Also that the world goes through cycles of being currency heavy and credit heavy in their transactions of which right now we're living through a new credit heavy cycle which is hard to predict the outcomes of.
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