A follow-up to David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, which has sold 100,000 copies for Melville House and been published in 26 foreign editionsWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulatio
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and b
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America Democracy has been the American religion since before th
A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world—democracy—as seen through the lens of the most transformative political movements of our time and the story of how radical democracy
Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunni
Before there was money, there was debtEvery economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul t
