O Colapso da Antiguidade - Livro

The Collapse of Antiquity

Hubson, M.: The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point. Islet Verlag. Dresde.   ISBN: 978-3-949546-12-9

Sinopse

O livro "The Collapse of Antiquity", é a continuação de ““…and forgive them their debts,” de Michael Hudson, é o segundo de sua trilogia sobre a história da dívida. Descreve como a dinâmica da dívida remunerada levou ao surgimento de oligarquias rentistas na Grécia e Roma clássicas. Isso causou polarização econômica, austeridade generalizada, revoltas, guerras e, finalmente, o colapso de Roma na servidão e no feudalismo. 

"Destruição" de Thomas Cole, 1836

Esse colapso legou à subsequente civilização ocidental uma filosofia jurídica pró-credor que chegou até às atuais oligarquias de credores. Ao contar esta história, O colapso da antiguidade revela os estranhos paralelos entre o colapso do mundo romano e as atuais economias ocidentais sobrecarregadas de dívidas.

INDEX

Introduction

Summary

A Chronology of Debt Crises and Land Struggles in Greece and

Rome

1. How Interest-Bearing Debt was Brought to Greece and Italy, 8th

Century BC

Part I — Greece

2. Reformers Cancel Debts and Redistribute Land, 7th and 6th

Centuries BC

3. Sparta’s Oligarchy Defers an Early Political Crisis, 6th Century BC

4. Solon Bans Debt Slavery in Athens, 594 BC

5. From Democracy to the Thirty Tyrants, 508-404 BC

6. Public Finance, from Temples to Oligarchs

7. Plato, Aristophanes and Aristotle on Money-Lust, 4th Century BC

8. Agis, Cleomenes and Nabis Cancel Sparta’s Debts, 3rd Century BC

Part II — Rome

9. From Rome’s Takeoff to the Patrician Coup, 753-509 BC

10. Secession of the Plebs and Broken Patrician Promises, 495-471 BC

11. The Twelve Tables and Struggle for Debt Reform, 462-390 BC

12. New Revolts Lead to the Banning of Debt Slavery, 390-287 BC

13. The Punic Wars End with a Financial Land Grab, 218-198 BC

14. Rome’s Empire Enriches its Financial Oligarchy, 2nd Century BC

15. Revolts Against and Within Rome Lead to Financial Crisis, 91-86 BC

16. The Mithridatic Wars Against Roman Creditors, 88-63 BC

17. Rome’s Land and Debt Crisis from Sulla to Catiline, 83-62 BC

18. From Cato and Cicero to Pompey and Caesar, 65-49 BC

19. Caesar’s Moderate Debt and Land Legislation, 49-44 BC

20. The Empire’s Fiscal Squeeze and Money Shortage, 1st to 3rd Centuries AD

Part III — Epilogue

21. Rome’s End Time Leads the Church to Ban Usury, 4th Century AD

22. Romanized Christianity Supports the Oligarchy, 4th and 5th Centuries AD

23. Roman History and Modern Ideology

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