Debt>Debt>Debt - Interview With David Graeber
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 202615 December 2014
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On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by David Graeber author of ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’ as they discuss debt embedding it within the context of the Great Recession.
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This interview explores David Graeber’s arguments in Debt: The First 5,000 Years, tracing how debt, money, war, and capitalism are historically intertwined. It connects these ideas to global justice activism, Occupy Wall Street, austerity, imperial power, and the rise of student debt as a major political and economic crisis.
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