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Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination | David Graeber
The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future• Police tactics attacked as officers pepper-spray women• Occupy Wall Street:...
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Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy | David Graeber
The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires themAs the history of past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those...
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Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?
As writers and artists invent currencies fit for the modern world, David Graeber reflects on the meaning of moneyWhat would you put on a banknote for our times?It affects every aspect of our lives, is...
View ArticleThe Business podcast: France, credit ratings and Occupy
Eurozone leaders are putting on a brave face after nine countries had their credit ratings downgraded by Standard and Poor's. France and Austria lost their coveted AAA ratings - as did the continent's...
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Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day | David Graeber
Occupy's May Day rebirth, forging a new alliance of activists and union members, was a historic moment of anti-capitalist struggleThe US press seems to have decided that the Occupy movement is no...
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There's no need for all this economic sadomasochism | David Graeber
If Reinhart and Rogoff's 'error' has discredited the prevailing policy dogma, now is the time for an alternative that worksThe intellectual justification for austerity lies in ruins. It turns out that...
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Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination | David Graeber
The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to reclaim the future• Police tactics attacked as officers pepper-spray women• Occupy Wall Street:...
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Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy | David Graeber
The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires themAs the history of past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those...
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Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?
As writers and artists invent currencies fit for the modern world, David Graeber reflects on the meaning of moneyWhat would you put on a banknote for our times?It affects every aspect of our lives, is...
View ArticleThe Business podcast: France, credit ratings and Occupy
Eurozone leaders are putting on a brave face after nine countries had their credit ratings downgraded by Standard and Poor's. France and Austria lost their coveted AAA ratings - as did the continent's...
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Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day | David Graeber
Occupy's May Day rebirth, forging a new alliance of activists and union members, was a historic moment of anti-capitalist struggleThe US press seems to have decided that the Occupy movement is no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There's no need for all this economic sadomasochism | David Graeber
If Reinhart and Rogoff's 'error' has discredited the prevailing policy dogma, now is the time for an alternative that worksThe intellectual justification for austerity lies in ruins. It turns out that...
View ArticleThe truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it
The Bank of England's dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the windowBack in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans...
View ArticleCaring too much. That's the curse of the working classes
Why has the basic logic of austerity been accepted by everyone? Because solidarity has come to be viewed as a scourge"What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?" I hear this,...
View ArticleSavage capitalism is back and it will not tame itself | David Graeber
Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at homeBack in the 90s, I used to get into arguments with Russian friends about...
View ArticleWhy is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? | David Graeber
Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandalIn 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International...
View ArticleOccupy Democracy is not considered newsworthy. It should be | David Graeber
Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and youre in troubleYou can tell a lot about the moral quality of a society by what is, and is not, considered...
View ArticleStudents are right to march against the markets. Why can’t education be free?...
After the 2008 crash, the most sensible reform would have been to make the financial system more like education, not vice versaThere is a certain type of joy only felt the first time one makes history,...
View ArticleRoy Bhaskar obituary
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryRoy Bhaskar, who has died aged 70 of heart failure, turned to philosophy only after becoming an economics...
View ArticleDavid Graeber: what the government doesn't want you to know about debt – video
There is one taboo of economics that the government is hiding from the public, argues David Graeber: it is the fact that if the government balances its books, it becomes impossible for the private...
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