David Graeber, an American anthropologist and anarchist best known for authoring popular and accessible books about economic justice, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 59. The news of Graeber’s ...

Writing about the global financial system that, however falteringly, commands the world at present, David Graeber remarks, “In part, these systems work because no one knows how they really work.” No ...

David Graeber, left, speaks at the Maagdenhuis occupation at the University of Amsterdam in March 2015. (Wikimedia Commons / Guido van Nispen) I met David Graeber on August 2, 2011, at the first ...

Influential academic David Graeber had been invited to Berlin to present his new book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by current German President Steinmeier who at the time was preparing to run for ...

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The acclaimed anthropologist, author and anarchist David Graeber has died at the age of 59. His influential book “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” made the case for sweeping debt cancellation. He helped ...

Upon the death of acclaimed anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber, we feature his 2011 interview on Democracy Now!, two days after the Occupy encampment began. Graeber helped organize the initial ...

Read part 2 of this interview here. David Johnson: What inspired you to write your latest book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years? David Graeber: It came out of the strange moral power that debt has over ...

Anthropoligist and anarchist David Graeber provides an overview of the arguments he puts forward in his work Debt: The First 5000 years. What follows is a fragment of a much larger project of research ...

But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason ...

As the Occupy Wall Street movement swept across the country in September, activist David Graeber became a public face for a resurgent leftism based on radical, direct-action protest. Graeber, 50, ...