Debt: The First 5,000 Years¶
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
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- And it is fragile in exactly the way the prime predicts: if the maintaining community withdraws its commitment — hyperinflation, currency reform, collapse — the physical sign vehicle survives intact but the meaning evaporates, a dynamic Graeber (2011) documents across five millennia of monetary regimes whose convention-maintenance succeeded or failed.
This sourceMelville House. Five-millennia historical-anthropological account of monetary regimes: documents how the value carried by currency tokens depends entirely on the convention-maintaining institutions that sustain them, and how that value evaporates when the maintaining community withdraws its commitment.
- And it is fragile in exactly the way the prime predicts: if the maintaining community withdraws its commitment — hyperinflation, currency reform, collapse — the physical sign vehicle survives intact but the meaning evaporates, a dynamic Graeber (2011) documents across five millennia of monetary regimes whose convention-maintenance succeeded or failed.
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