How David Graeber Changed the Way We See Money ... He ended Debt with a call for “ some kind of Biblical-style Jubilee: one that would affect both international debt and consumer debt.” ...

David Graeber at his home in Manhattan in in 2005. A public intellectual, professor, political activist and author, ... He advocated a “jubilee” of loan forgiveness.

A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

“The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity,” by David Graeber and David Wengrow is out now. Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020. The anthropologist and author left behind countless fans ...

18th-century map of Madagascar by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. (Getty) The late David Graeber was an anarchist, an activist, and an anthropologist—and a master storyteller. Throughout his career, he ...

According to anthropologist David Graeber, the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the first recorded jubilee declaration was made in 2,400 BC, when the Sumerian king Enmetena declared a ...

Editor’s Note: David Graeber has died at the age of 59. His wife, Nika Dubrovsky, ... commercial debts, between merchants were often left alone. The Jubilee was a way of institutionalizing that.

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum ...

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In many ways it can be read as an addendum to 2021’s “The Dawn of Everything,” which Graeber co-wrote with archaeologist David Wengrow as a door stopper argument against the pat story of ...