Debt: The First 5000 Years

By D. Graeber. 2011

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The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace (2016, background): “Attentive stress and disposability are intensified by unrealistic expectations fostered by a quantified, machinelike image of human productivity, further intensified by permanent indebtedness leading to a sense of permanent inadequacy (Gill, 1995; Graeber, 2011).”
Mutuality (2016, background): “…between the original parties to the transfer of value, but two other expectations; that the recipient of a gift offered (a thing, a courtesy, or a favor) would act similarly were circumstances reversed (Graeber, 2011) and that this gift moves on, a point stressed at book length by Hyde (1983).”
Financialization and Economic Development: A Debate on the Social Efficiency of Modern Finance (2018, background): “Citizenship and rights are being reconceptualized in terms of universal access to ‘safe’ and affordable financial products (Kear, 2012) — redefining Descartes’ philosophical proof of existence as: ‘I am indebted, therefore I am’ (Graeber, 2011).”
How is Bitcoin Money? (2016, background): “It’s not “really” anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention’ (Graeber, 2011: 372).”
Capitalizing on the crowd: The monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017, background): “…financial ecologies of crowdfunding are certainly multiple: as anthropological research tends to stress, more broadly, the contingent dyadic unity of credit–debt can lead to relational forms which can enable the building of community solidarities (Graeber, 2011; Peebles, 2010; cf. Lazzarato, 2012).”
The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History (2014, background): “David Graeber (2001, 2009, 2011), in a unique historical synthesis, links given an impersonal measure.”
Speaking to the people? Money, trust, and central bank legitimacy in the age of quantitative easing (2016, background): “It spans sociology (Dodd, 2014; Ganßmann 2012; Ingham, 2004; Zelizer, 1994), economics (Bell, 2001; Wray, 2012), law (Desan, 2014), history (Spang, 2015), political economy (Knafo, 2013; Konings, 2015), literary studies (Poovey, 2008), anthropology (Graeber, 2011; Maurer et al. 2013), and philosophy”
Do libertarians dream of electric coins? The material embeddedness of Bitcoin (2014, background): “While Bitcoin is not inflationary, it does nothing to change one of the fundamental features of modern capitalism: debt (Graeber 2011; Lazzarato 2012).”
The Chicago Plan Revisited (2012, background): “Furthermore, Graeber (2011), Zarlenga (2002) and the references cited therein provide plenty of evidence that these credit systems, and the much later money systems, had their origins in the needs of the state (Ridgeway (1892)), of religious/temple institutions (Einzig (1966), Laum (1924)) and of…”
Democracy of Credit: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late Twentieth-Century America1 (2016, background): “…[has] no claim and for which the donor [has] no obligation” (Fraser and Gordon 1992, p. 59).7 As we will see, these contrasting logics are deeply embedded in the credit transaction, which has often been analyzed as a particular form of gift relationship (Mauss 2000; Peebles 2010; Graeber 2011).”
Bonded Life (2015, background): “In the first case, slaves were reduced to an inherent monetary value through the violence of the slave trade, which stripped them of their particularity as humans and located their value in the power of their bodies to toil and reproduce (Graeber 2011, p. 352).”
Neoliberal growth models, monetary union and the Euro crisis. A post-Keynesian perspective (2016, unknown): “This analysis of money has great similarity with that of economic sociologists like Ingham (2004) or anthropologists like Graeber (2011).”
Bubbles, Financial Crises, and Systemic Risk (2012, unknown): “Merchants extended credit to farmers, but when harvests turned out worse than expected, farmers regularly ended up overindebted, leading to social unrest and threatening the social order (see, for example, Graeber (2011)).”