Campagno, M. Gallego, J. y García Mac Gaw, C. (Comps.). (2017). Capital, Deuda y Desigualdad. Distribuciones de la Riqueza en el Mediterráneo Antiguo. Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila, pp. 206. Español
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Review of the book Capital, Debt and Inequality ... compiled by Marcelo Campagno, Julián Gallego and Carlos García Mac Gaw. The volume brings together, in ten chapters and a summary introduction, the papers presented in the V International Colloquium of the Program of Studies on the Forms of Society and the State Configurations of Antiquity.The researchers who participated in the colloquium used texts by David Graeber (2011), In debt. An alternative history of economics, and, by Thomas Piketty (2014), Capital in the 21st century, to think about analytical perspectives suitable for the ancient world. These authors studied, from anthropology and economics respectively, the articulation between the forms of social inequality, the processes of accumulation of wealth and the role of institutional arrangements in the organization of surplus extraction and distribution of resources a long-term perspective. The discussion of the Piketty and Graeber hypotheses provides a strong incentive to think about the theoretical status of the means available to understand the logics of social articulation that characterize the socio-economic formations considered.
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