David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020)^[1] was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author. He was known for his books Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018).

He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.^[2]

Graeber was born in New York City. He studied at the University of Chicago and at State University of New York at Purchase.

Graeber died on 2 September 2020 in a Venice hospital from a hemorrhage caused by pancreatitis at the age of 59.^[1][3]

A selection of books

• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
• Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (2022)