Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By Holly High. 2012

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Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange (2014, background): “We even see all three forms simultaneously, as revealed in the divorce of Neil Bush (one of president George W. Bush’s brothers) (Graeber 2011:127).”
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).”
Low‐carbon transition risks for finance (2020, background): “Financial systems have featured deeply connected networks throughout history (Graeber, 2011), and international financial liberalization since the 1970s has only reinforced this interconnectedness (Christophers, 2013).”
Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality (2019, background): “The emergence of indebtedness as a necessity and a norm (to access housing, healthcare and education) has, for instance, provoked analyses focusing on the credit–debt relation (see, e.g. Graeber, 2011; Lazzarato, 2011; Soederberg, 2014).”
The Social Life of Bitcoin (2018, background): “…specialist monetary literature will tell you, there is nothing unusual about this – all money is ‘virtual’ in the sense that it relies upon the series of claims and obligations in which it is embedded (see Dodd, 1994, 2014; Hart, 1986, 2001; Ingham, 1996, 2004; Graeber, 2001, 2011; Desan, 2014).”
Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological Fix (2015, background): “In recent years, few books have done more to give debt its bad name than Graeber’s (2011) eponymous history.”
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).”
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).”