Forgive us our debts
Benjamin Kunkel: The History of Debt, 10 May 2012
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order
by Philip Coggan.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, December 2011,978 1 84614 510 0 Show More
by Philip Coggan.
Allen Lane, 294 pp., £20, December 2011,
Debt: The First 5000 Years
by David Graeber.
Melville House, 534 pp., £21.99, July 2011,978 1 933633 86 2 Show More
by David Graeber.
Melville House, 534 pp., £21.99, July 2011,
“... which bears a resemblance to Kropotkin’s ‘mutual aid’, covers relationships answering to Marx’s dictum: to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities. People act as communists not only towards friends and family but often towards guests, neighbours and strangers: ‘What is equal on both sides is the knowledge that the other ... ”