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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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I have just finished reading Debt: The First 5000 Years by anthropologist David Graeber. The book takes a look at the history of money, debt, and how they relate to societal structures from a lens ...

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 ...

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 ...