ABSTRACT
David Graeber, the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, is an anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics in England. He has published many books on topics related to both anthropology and politics and has also been involved in international activist movements focused on anti-globalization, anti-capitalism and the support of debt relief. Graeber was born in New York in 1961, where his parents exposed him to leftist politics at an early age. Graeber received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1997. Debt was first published in 2011, and written in a time of global economic turmoil, when many were already questioning the fairness of the dominant economic system. The government response to the crisis focused on stabilizing the financial system by rescuing banks, rather than on providing debt relief for individuals.
