Very rich post, I would need to return to the start to follow the thread. I like that you identify the author's blind spot, that's some real scholarship.
This was his earlier work on the history of debt, https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years. However ,much of it resonates in his later work The Dawn of Humanity (which I also tend to recall as the history of everything.) That was in 2023 but I wish I had spent more time writing more about it but I have since learned how to do it this time around. I was also intimidated and thus my decision to do a slow read on it. Well, worth the effort.
One for the reading list! Debt is unlikely to go away as a topic (in fact, the national debt dominates conversations about Government spending in the UK currently).
Very rich post, I would need to return to the start to follow the thread. I like that you identify the author's blind spot, that's some real scholarship.
Thanks for the input. I have to make sure that I put a link to the first post in every post! Valuable observation. Here's the link to the book's page https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years
Is this Graeber, the history of everything? I confess it was an intimidating read, much like Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel!
This was his earlier work on the history of debt, https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years. However ,much of it resonates in his later work The Dawn of Humanity (which I also tend to recall as the history of everything.) That was in 2023 but I wish I had spent more time writing more about it but I have since learned how to do it this time around. I was also intimidated and thus my decision to do a slow read on it. Well, worth the effort.
One for the reading list! Debt is unlikely to go away as a topic (in fact, the national debt dominates conversations about Government spending in the UK currently).
Graeber commented that if the UK paid its debt in full, it would actually go bankrupt or belly up! I had not fully understood how that works though...