![]() ![]() … the threat of violence, turns human relations into mathematics. … the violence and the quantification-are intimately linked. … money’s capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic-and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene. … to become simple, cold, and impersonal … transferable. … the central question of this book: What, precisely, does it man to say that our sense of morality and justice is reduced to the language of a business deal? What does it mean when we reduce moral obligations to debts? … debt, unlike any other form of obligation, can be precisely quantified. After 60 pages, 340 more seemed too much. Graeber’s book contains many interesting historical observations but lacks a concise argument to convince a brainwashed neoclassical economist looking for coherent arguments on money and debt. ![]()
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