Debt [Texte imprimé] : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber

Bibliogr. p. 455-492

On the experience of moral confusion -- The myth of barter -- Primordial debts -- Cruelty and redemption -- A brief treatise on the moral grounds of economic relations -- Games with sex and death -- Honor and degradation, or, on the foundations of contemporary civilization -- Credit versus bullion, and the cycles of history -- The axial age (800 BC - 600 AD) -- The middle ages (600 AD - 1450 AD) -- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971) -- (1971- )