![]() ![]() This is seen in the conclusion of the book, which argues for ‘a new jubilee of biblical style’ (Graeber, 2011, p.390), by which Graeber means is the remission of all debts.īut this book is far from being a plea for canceling all debts nor is it a politically written essay for just the purpose of defending a cause. His book is mostly viewed as a political work whose objective is to question the institutions of capitalism most importantly, the concept of ‘debt’. Throughout his book, he intends to defend a thesis which questions the definition of debt and that one which is not always expressed explicitly. He is also an author of the short book in which he discusses anarchist theories in light of anthropology. The first slaughtered idea that economists like to talk about is barter and before the modern economy, there was only bartering, but according to anthropologists like David Graeber in his book Debt: The first 5,000 years, ‘there’s not a shred of evidence to support it.’ Graeber is indeed an intellectual of the radical left and was one of the instigators of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. ![]()
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