David Graeber Quote

To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life—even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.


Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 89 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)


To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human...

To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human...

To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human...

To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human...