In the third edition of the college-level textbook Macroeconomics, the economists Andrew Abel and future Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blithely assert that “since the earliest times almost all ...

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 ...

David Graeber, an American anthropologist and anarchist best known for authoring popular and accessible books about economic justice, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 59. The news of Graeber’s ...

Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war. The ...

Fencing booty is the most underappreciated problem of historical pirate logistics. Myths and stories about “going on the account” (as high-seas piracy was known during its late–seventeenth- and ...

David Graeber, left, speaks at the Maagdenhuis occupation at the University of Amsterdam in March 2015. (Wikimedia Commons / Guido van Nispen) I met David Graeber on August 2, 2011, at the first ...

David Graeber's new book provides interesting insights to the nature of modern work, but it fails to provide a materialist analysis. David Graeber is one of the more interesting contemporary anarchist ...

Timothy Noah is a Washington-based journalist and author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Problem and What We Can Do About It. The economics profession can tell you everything ...

Lately it has seemed possible that everything must change. Basic fixtures of American life, rules and institutions that had come to feel inevitable — in 2020 and 2021, they felt less inevitable than ...