ABSTRACT
David Graeber was one of the intellectual drivers of Occupy Wall Street. Graber was an anthropologist with an uncanny ability to ask uncomfortable questions about the way we live our lives. In his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years Graeber drew on an anthropologically and archaeologically informed perspective to emphasize the moral grounds of economic relations. According to Graber there is more to our economy than rational decision making, there is also power, violence, and a construction of morality. Graeber asks fundamental questions: What is money? What is debt? The early states had complex economies that functioned without money in the sense of currency. Although lacking coins these societies developed mechanisms for recording and monitoring economic transactions.
