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Promises, Promises: A history of debt

David Graeber
BBC Radio 4
Level: beginner
Topic: Money & Debt
Format: Podcast
Duration: 00:14:00
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054zdp6

In this radio program, the anthropologist David Graeber, explores the history of debt in (currently) 12 episodes. The program is based on his book Debt: The First 5000 Years. First, Graeber asks the questions of how debt and money are characterized, which meaning and roles they had in different historic episodes and how they were interrelated. In the most recent episodes, Graeber elaborates on how debt shaped society. He argues that debt had a different moral status in different times of history, one session analyses the current financial and economic crisis and the role of credit in this historical context.

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