Schulden

A radical yet liberating look at the roots of our debt crisis

Since the invention of credit 5,000 years ago, the promise of repayment has driven people into slavery. David Graeber tells the history of humanity as a history of debt: a moral principle that only supports the power of the ruling class. In doing so, he breaks the logic of capitalism and frees our thinking from the primacy of the economy.

"We are at the beginning of a 'cruel endgame' or at the 'start of something that cannot yet be determined.' There is much to learn about how we got here in David Graeber's furious and scholarly book, Debt."
Mathias Greffrath, Die Zeit

"An anthropologist fundamentally re-examines the nature of money and credit. And arrives at astonishing conclusions. For example, that capitalism is based on communist foundations. This is 'Debt,' the best book on the situation."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

"Graeber's anthropological perspective on the past 5,000 years reveals an incredibly dramatic social, indeed human history behind the simple term 'debt.' Its outcome is far from certain."
Andreas Zielcke, Süddeutsche Zeitung

"An epochal reckoning with capital."
Christian Schlüter, Frankfurter Rundschau

"'Debt' is the safest investment among the new crisis books."
Oskar Piegsa, Spiegel Online.