David Graeber Audio & Video

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 their goods to market....

In 2013 David Graeber, professor of anthropology at LSE, wrote an excoriating essay on modern work for Strike! magazine. "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" was read over a million times and the essay translated in seventeen different languages within weeks.

From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

DEBT: The First 5,000 Years! While the "national debt" has been the concern du jour of many economists, commentators and politicians, little attention is ever paid to the historical significance of debt.

From the author of the international best-seller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives.

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....

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.