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> I was surprised that with the emphasis on debt and credit in the article, David Graeber's Debt: The first 5,000 years wasn't mentioned. This is minor, but th
by cokernel 11y ago
> I was surprised that with the emphasis on debt and credit in the article, David Graeber's Debt: The first 5,000 years wasn't mentioned.
This is minor, but the article probably didn't mention that book because it wasn't published until about 98 years later.
Thanks for the book recommendation, though. It sounds interesting, as do the ideas about energy backing and "demand rights".
- dredmorbius 11y agoI'm cringing a bit. I was skimming through the piece and wasn't quite sure to what extent it was all written in 1913 or comprised both an earlier work and contemporary commentary on it. Most of the language is quite modern. But yes, you're painfully correct, my error.