David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of DEBT: The First 5,000 Years, and a contributor to Harper's, The Guardian, and The Baffler. He lives in London.
Praise for DEBT: The First 5000 Years
"Fresh...fascinating... Graeber's book is not just thought
provoking, but also exceedingly timely."--Gillian Tett, The
Financial Times "The book is more readable and entertaining than I
can indicate... It is a meditation on debt, tribute, gifts,
religion and the false history of money. Graeber is a scholarly
researcher, an activist and a public intellectual."--Peter
Carey, The Observer
Praise for Utopia of
Rules:
"Thought-provoking."--Boston Globe "[A] fizzing, fabulous
firecracker of a book... Our contemporary bureaucrats are revealed,
in fact, as none other than you and me, forever administering and
marketing ourselves."--The Literary Review
"A brilliant, deeply original political thinker..."--Rebecca
Solnit
"A master of opening up thought and stimulating
debate."--Slate
"A thought-provoking examination of our working
lives."--Financial Times
"Buoyed by a sense of recognition, the reader happily follows
Graeber in his fun attempts to categorize bulls--- jobs into Goons,
Flunkies, Box Tickers, Duct Tapers, and Taskmasters, which
inevitably bleed together into Complex Multiform Bulls--- Jobs.
It's funny, albeit painful, that we've gotten work so wrong and
spend so much time at it."--Bloomberg.com
"Clever and charismatic."--The New Yorker
"Graeber is an American anthropologist with a winning combination
of talents: he's a startlingly original thinker...able to convey
complicated ideas with wit and clarity."--The Telegraph
(UK)
"Graeber wants us to unshackle ourselves from the limits imposed by
bureaucracy, precisely so we can actually get down to openly and
creatively arguing about our collective future."--NPR
"One of our most important and provocative thinkers..."--Cory
Doctorow
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