Money and its Redemption [Audio]
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 20268 May 2015LSE
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Speaker(s): Dr Laura Bear, Professor David Graeber, Professor Bill Maurer | Can “bad money” be made good? Leading economic anthropologists will debate the morality of money, philosophies of philanthropy, and the lure of redemption. Laura Bear is Associate Professor of Anthropology at LSE. David G
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A panel discussion examines whether money can be morally redeemed, contrasting Christian payback models with Hindu, Jewish, and secular views that focus on social relations, justice, and redistribution. The speakers connect philanthropy, debt, CSR, banking, and infrastructure to broader questions of power, inequality, and the ethics of money.
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