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.

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: Oh, Adbusters, the ... The Jubilee was a way of institutionalizing that. In the Middle Ages, there were bans on interest taking entirely. There have been many mechanisms.

David Graeber — of Occupy Wall Street fame — has written, in ... Graeber's Jubilee would extend to both international debt and individual debt — and would greatly increase the world's freedom.

For Graeber, the only way out of a society crushed by its own debt is a modern jubilee year, a period of systematic debt relief during which we wipe the slate clean.

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 ...

“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 ...

In the final paragraphs of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” the anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber drops his academic detachment to offer a solution to the financial impasse whose ...

In the anthropologist David Graeber’s view, the balance sheet must periodically be wiped clean, to free us from debt as an economic burden and as an ideology that distorts our interactions.