{"subtitle": "The First 5,000 Years", "description": "The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided into debtors and creditors. For 5,000 years debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates, laws and religions. The words \u201cguilt,\u201d \u201csin,\u201d and \u201credemption\u201d come from ancient debates about debt. These terms and the ideas of debt shape  our most basic ideas of right and wrong. [source][1]\r\n\r\n\r\n  [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years/dp/1612194192/ref=dp_ob_title_bk", "links": [{"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "VIAF ID: 2710152865649904940002", "url": "https://viaf.org/viaf/2710152865649904940002", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "inventaire.io", "url": "https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q1304168", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Klett-Cotta Verlag (publisher, german)", "url": "https://www.klett-cotta.de/buch/Gesellschaft_/_Politik/Schulden/22512", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus (DadA, german)", "url": "http://dadaweb.de/wiki/David_R._Graeber:_Schulden_-_Die_ersten_5000_Jahre", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Dataspace (german)", "url": "https://ildb.nadir.org/170039.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "Debt", "covers": [6299464, 8974979, -1, 8636068, 9247238, 10650893, 12114220], "subjects": ["Money", "Debt", "Financial crises", "History", "Financial crisis", "Money, history", "Pengar", "Penningv\u00e4sen", "Finanskriser", "Historia", "Debt--history", "Money--history", "Financial crises--history", "Hg3701 .g73 2014", "332", "Nonfiction", "Economics", "Business & Economics"], "key": "/works/OL14909099W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1395062A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q1304168"], "bookbrainz": ["165d5b85-2fa8-47e5-9ba3-7b65200edf95"], "librarything": ["9530527"], "goodreads": ["6811142"]}, "latest_revision": 25, "revision": 25, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-03-12T06:37:27.511191"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-26T11:36:29.062665"}}