David Graeber: 16 books
The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
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...
Debt - Updated and Expanded
The First 5,000 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows...
Bullshit Jobs
A Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David...
by Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores...
Trabajos de mierda
Una teoría
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 9, 2018
El nuevo esclavismo. Pasarse la vida trabajando en algo totalmente innecesario. Un trabajo de mierda.
¿Su trabajo tiene algún sentido para la sociedad? En la primavera de 2013, David Graeber hizo esta pregunta en un ensayo lúdico y provocativo titulado «Sobre el fenómeno de los trabajos...
No Future for You
Salvos from The Baffler
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America—brought to you by The Baffler.
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been...
Bullshit jobs
Over zinloos werk, waarom het toeneemt en hoe we het kunnen bestrijden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 15, 2018
In ‘Bullshit jobs’ stelt antropoloog en invloedrijk denker David Graeber dat een groot deel van ons werk zinloos moet zijn. Want dankzij de technologie kunnen we voor onze productiebehoefte met een vijftienurige werkweek toe, en toch maken we allemaal nog steeds volle dagen. Hij kreeg op een blog...
Schuld
de eerste 5000 jaar
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Eerst maakte de mens schulden, toen pas maakte hij het geld. In tegenstelling tot wat de wetenschap altijd dacht, betoogt David Graeber dat schuld al bestond ver voordat geld en munten werden uitgevonden en dat de mens al 5000 jaar gebruikmaakt van uitgebreide kredietsystemen. Sterker nog: schuld...
Paid
Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
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? And...
We Are Many
Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going. It is all too rare that in the process of creating the movement and living the moment, participants and thinkers step back and ask the most pressing questions....
by David Graeber
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Dans cet essai, David Graeber guide le lecteur dans les rouages de la véritable démocratie pour déconstruire les idées reçues et réorienter de manière audacieuse notre compréhension de l’histoire politique.
La utopía de las normas
De la tecnología, la estupidez y los secretos placeres de la burocracia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2015
¿Cuál es el origen de ese afán por regular, imponer normas y burocratizar todos y cada uno de los aspectos de nuestra vida? Y lo más importante, ¿hasta qué punto nos arruina la existencia toda esa cantidad de formularios, procedimientos y documentación? No sólo en lo público, también en...
En deuda
Una historia alternativa de la economía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 13, 2012
**Ganador del premio Bread and Roses for Radical Publishing 2012 **
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Todo libro de economía hace la misma aseveración: el dinero se inventó para dar solución a la complejidad creciente de los sistemas de trueque. Esta versión de la historia tiene un grave problema, no hay...
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