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Promises, Promises: A History of Debt


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Pretty awesome from BBC Radio

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5000 years. In this episode, he examines the moral power that debt holds over us.

David argues that whenever we think about debt we end up in a deep moral confusion. We resent the "deadbeats" who fail to pay us back and yet many of us believe that people who get us into debt - money lenders - are immoral if not downright evil.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05447pc

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