David Graeber

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, best known for Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything, written with David Wengrow. Born in New York City in 1961, he taught at Yale and later at the London School of Economics, drawing on fieldwork he had done in Madagascar. He also wrote Direct Action, an account of the global justice movement, and was a leading figure in Occupy Wall Street in 2011.