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Lending, foreclosure and redemption from Bronze Age finance to the Jubilee Year...and forgive them their debts / Michael Hudson.

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Dresden : ISLET-Verlag, 2018.

9783981826029 (pbk.)

xxvi, 311 p. : b&w ill., map ; 25 cm.

The rise and fall of jubilee debt cancellations and clean slates -- Archaic economies versus modern preconceptions -- Part I : OVERVIEW : -- A Babylonian Perspective on Liberty and Economic Order -- Jesus's First Sermon and the Tradition of Debt Amnesty -- Credit, Debt and Money : Their Social and Private Contexts -- Part II : SOCIAL ORIGINS OF DEBT : -- The Anthropology of Debt, from Gift Exchange to Wergild Fines -- Creditors as Predators : The Anthropology of Usury -- Origins of Commercial Interest in Sumer's Palaces and Temples -- Rural Usury as a Lever to Privatize Land and Impose Bondage -- Part III : THE BRONZE AGE INVENTS USURY, BUT COUNTERS ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS : -- War, Debt and amar-gi in Sumer : 2400 BC -- Urukagina proclaims amar-gi : 2350 BC -- Sargon's Akkadian Empire and its Collapse : 2300-2100 BC -- Lagash Revives under Gudea and his Debt Cancellation : 2130 BC -- Trade, Enterprise and Debt in Ur III : 2111-2004 BC -- Isin Rulers replace Ur III and proclaim níg-si-sá: 2017-1861 BC -- Diffusion of Trade via Assyrian Merchants : 1900-1825 BC -- Privatizing Mesopotamia's Intermediate Period : 2000-1600 BC -- Hammurabi's Laws and mīšarum Edicts : 1792-1750 BC -- Freeing the Land and its Cultivators from Predatory Creditors -- Samsuiluna's and Ammisaduqa's mīšarum Edicts : 1749 and 1646 BC -- Social Cosmology of Babylonia's Debt Cancellations -- Usury and Privatization in the Periphery : 1600-1200 BC -- From the Dawn of the Iron Age to the Rosetta Stone : 1200-196 BC -- Part IV : THE BIBLICAL LEGACY : -- Judges, Kings and Usury : 8th and 7th Centuries BC -- Biblical Prophets Call for Debt Cancellation -- The Babylonian Impact on Judaic Debt Laws -- From Religious Covenant to Hillel -- Christianity Spiritualizes the Jubilee Year as the Day of Judgment -- The Byzantine Echo -- The Zenith and Decline of Byzantium : 945-1204 -- Epilogue -- Western Civilization is rooted in the Bronze Age near east.

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