Debt: The First 5000 Years - autonomous learning

504 INDEX
"debt," etymology of, 59
"debt imperialism," 368
debt litigation, 333-334
debt monetization, 371-372, 451nn18-19
debtor-creditor relationships, 124-126,
408nn66-67
debtor protection institutes, 18
See also International Monetary
Fund
debtor punishments
debt peonage, 414n5
execution, 333
loss of freedom, 81, 402n16
mutilation, 16, 77, 288, 402n10
Nehemiah on, 81-82, 283, 402n19
pawnship, 414n5
sins as, 407n60
debtors' prisons
conditions in, 7, 334, 393n3, 447n65
in England, 7, 17, 334, 391, 439nl14,
444n20
Fleet and Marshalsea prisons, 334,
447n65
in U.S., 17
debt pawns. See pawns/pawnship
debt peonage
capitalism, comparisons to, 347, 349
creation of, 349-351
duties of peons, 129
in Greece, 228, 427n15
in Haiti, 6, 393n2
in India, 256-257
as legal punishment, 414n5
as means of recruiting global labor,
368
peons, 349
as slavery, 6, 393n2, 451n16
slavery, comparison to, 349-350,
451n16
for wives committing adultery, 129
debt records, preservation of
in China, 38
coins vs. credit arrangements and, 22
in Egypt, 38
Indus Valley civilization, 38
in Mesopotamia, 14, 21, 38, 39, 54,
61, 399-400n43, 399n43
in Sumer, 39, 396n32
"debts of punishment," 407n60
debt theories. See economic theories
debt-token systems
Chartalism, 47-48, 50, 54, 258, 340,
397nll, 400n56
leather token money, 48, 74-75, 327,
396n37
medieval European systems, 40, 48,
74-75, 435n56
tally sticks, 48, 268, 396n37, 397n16,
425n26, 435nn48-53, 442n161
"debt to nature," 386
Deccan riots, 257
Decretum (Gratian), 287
defense budget, U.S., 365-366
deficits, government, 358, 366, 450n110
dege (millet), 169
Deleuze, Gilles, 402n8
demagogues, 229
democracy
bailouts, and threat to, 17, 394n13
(Chap. 1)
in Buddhism, 250
capitalism and, 17
credit and debt, ideas about in, 387-
388
finance, democratization of, 388
in Greece, 228, 427n17
in monarchical hierarchies, 80, 402n19
de nada (you're welcome), 123
deniers, French, 48, 292, 395n28, 397n12
deposit notes, 448n75
Depository Institutions Deregulation and
Monetary Control Act of 1980,
376, 452n25
deregulation, financial, 376, 452n25
de rien (you're welcome), 123
derivatives, financial, 15
De Tobia (Ambrose), 284
Deuteronomy, views on debt in, 82, 87,
285, 287, 323, 402n17, 403n20,
409n8, 445n28
devadasis (temple dancers), 181-182,
416n44
de Vitry, Jacques, 10
Dharma, 261, 265, 268
Dharmasastra, 255
diamonds vs. water, 447n73
Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, 316-317, 355-
356, 444n17
dictators, 2-3
didjeridu, 3 1