* On the Experience of Moral Confusion

* The Myth of Barter

* Primordial Debts

** State and Credit Theories of Money

** In Search of a Myth

* Cruelty and Redemption

* A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations

** Communism

** Exchange

** Hierarchy

** Shifting between Modalities

* Games with Sex and Debt

** Money as Inadequate Substitute

** Blood Debts (Lele)

** Flesh-Debt (Tiv)

** The Slave Trade

** Reflections on Violence

* Honor and Degradation, or, On the Foundations of Contemporary Civilization

** Honor Is Surplus Dignity

** Honor Price (Early Medieval Ireland)

** Mesopotamia (The Origins of Patriarchy)

** Ancient Greece (Honor and Debt)

** Ancient Rome (Property and Freedom)

** Conclusions

* Credit Versus Bullion and the Cycles of History

** Mesopotamia (3500–800 BC)

** Egypt (2650–716 BC)

** China (2200–771 BC)

* The Axial Age (800 BC – 600 AD)

** The Mediterranean

** India

** China

** Materialism I: The Pursuit of Profit

** Materialism II: Substance

* The Middle Ages (600 – 450 AD)

** Medieval India (Flight into Hierarchy)

** China: Buddhism and the Economy of Infinite Debt

** The Near West: (Capital as Credit)

** The Far West: Christendom (Commerce, Lending, and War)

** What, Then, Were the Middle Ages?

* Age of the Great Capitalist Empires (1450–1971 AD)

** Part I: Greed, Terror, Indignation, Debt

** Part II: The World of Credit and the World of Interest

** Part III: Impersonal Credit-money

** Part IV: So What Is Capitalism, Anyway?

** Part IV: Apocalypse

* (1971–The Beginning of Something Yet to Be Determined)

** Conclusion: Perhaps the World Really Does Owe You a Living

* Bibliography