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 ...

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 word about David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years. The book is fascinating, no matter what your views on investment banks, the IMF, or capitalism. Graeber is definitively not objective, but he ...

If the last five years of American politics have demonstrated anything, it's that Marx's dictum about the modern state couldn't be more indisputable: our government is the executive committee for the ...