This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory, which have become criti[...]

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 the Revolution--from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate shi[...]

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: Conversation Starters
Bullshit jobs are spiritually and morally corrosive and make people extremely unhappy. If people are denied meaningful jobs that enable them to somehow contribute something to the world, they become mad or deeply miserable. They hold jobs t[...]

Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist for the simple reason that it's impossible to maintain an engine of pe[...]

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 editions
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms[...]

Skuldhantering har blivit en huvudfråga i internationell politik. Men ingen tycks veta exakt vad begreppet skuld står för eller hur man ska förhålla sig till det. Denna flexibla innebörd är i själva verket orsaken till begreppets makt. Det finns inget bättre sätt att rättfärdiga relation[...]