Quotes by : David Graeber

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly....

Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always....

Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing....

The basic principle of structural analysis, I was explaining, is that the terms of a symbolic system....

This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like....

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the....

As a result, amongst working-class Americans, government is now generally seen as being made up of two....

IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly....

money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably....