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What is Debt?: Anthropologist David Graeber asks: 'What actually is a debt'? The answer is not as simple as you might think. From March 2015. Show more
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David Graeber examines the centrality of debt to the origin of money and in the earliest transactions. From April 2015. Show more
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David Graeber considers how the world's great religions pepper their texts with the language of debt. From March 2015. Show more
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David Graeber examines debt in the Classical period, exploring the impact of the invention of coinage. From March 2015. Show more
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Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years. In this episode he examines the moral power that debt holds over people. Show more
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David Graeber goes back to the medieval period when coinage largely disappeared and money became virtual, and reveals the importance of debt during the conquest of South America. Show more
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Anthropologist David Graeber draws upon his research to challenge established wisdom over the moral power of debt, the origins of money and the definition of money itself. Show more
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David Graeber on debt in the medieval period, when coinage largely disappeared sparking multi-credit arrangements. From March 2015. Show more
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David Graeber on the influence of debt during the conquest of South America and birth of the modern world economy. From March 2015. Show more
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David Graeber on the influence of debt during the birth of capitalism and the centrality of debt to the slave trade. From March 2015. Show more
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David Graeber examines the rise of virtual money since the 1970s and the power of the international creditors. Show more
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Anthropologist David Graeber examines recent events and the crash of 2008 in the context of the history of debt. From March 2015. Show more
