David Graeber’s ‘Debt’ Shows Us How to Think About the Post-Pandemic, Climate Crisis Economy

Ten years after its publication, the late anthropologist’s deconstruction of economics is more valuable than ever

Margaret Heffernan
Marker
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7 min readJul 20, 2021

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In the beginning was debt. In David Graeber’s sprawling epic on the history of money, he charts its shape-shifting from…

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Margaret Heffernan
Marker

CEO of 6 businesses, her book WILFUL BLINDNESS was called a classic; her TED talks have been seen by over 12 million people. UNCHARTED is her new book.