David Graeber bibliography

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and social theorist. Unless otherwise noted, all works are authored solely by David Graeber.

Books

• Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave. 2001. ISBN 978-0-312-24044-8.
• Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press (distributed by University of Chicago Press). 2004. ISBN 978-0-9728196-4-0.
• Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-253-34910-1.
• Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. Oakland, California: AK Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-904859-66-6.
• Direct Action: An Ethnography. Edinburgh; Oakland: AK Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-904859-79-6.
• Debt: The First 5000 Years. Brooklyn, New York: Melville House. 2011. ISBN 978-1-933633-86-2.
• Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination. London; New York: Minor Compositions / Autonomedia. 2011. ISBN 978-1-57027-243-1.
• The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement. New York: Spiegel & Grau. 2013. ISBN 9780812993561.
• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. Melville House. 2015. ISBN 978-1-61219-375-5.
• Graeber, David; Sahlins, Marshall (2017). On Kings. Hau Books. ISBN 978-0-9861325-0-6.
• Bullshit Jobs. Penguin. 2018. ISBN 978-0241263884.
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021. ISBN 978-0-374-15735-7. Written with David Wengrow.

Posthumous books and unfinished books

• Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking. Diaphanes. September 2020. ISBN 9783035802269. Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman.
• Uprisings: An Illustrated Guide to Popular Rebellion. PM Press. December 2020. ISBN 9781629638256. Written with Nika Dubrovsky.
• Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. January 2023. ISBN 9780374610203.
• A David Graeber Reader. PM Press. Coedited by Romy Ruukel.
• Whose Creative Energy? Action and Reflection in the Construction of Value. Ibunsha (in Japanese) and Berghahn Books (in English). Coedited by Setsuko Nakayama.

Edited books

• Shukaitis, Stevphen; Graeber, David; Biddle, Erika, eds. (2007). Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations / Collective Theorization. Oakland, California: AK Press. ISBN 978-1-904859-35-2. OCLC 141193537.

Academic articles

• "The new anarchists". New Left Review. II (13). January–February 2002.
• "Turning Modes of Production Inside Out: Or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery" (PDF). Critique of Anthropology. 26 (1): 61–85. March 2006. doi:10.1177/0308275X06061484. S2CID 37810908.
• Graeber, David (September 2011). "The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk: On Violence, Utopia, and the Human Condition, or, Elements for an Archaeology of Sovereignty". HAU: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 1 (1): 1–62. doi:10.14318/hau1.1.002. S2CID 159850613.
• Graeber, David (December 2012). "Dead Zones of the Imagination: On Violence, Bureaucracy, and Interpretive Labor. The 2006 Malinowski Memorial Lecture". HAU: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2 (2): 105–128. doi:10.14318/hau2.2.007. S2CID 145007192.
• There never was a West, Association of Social Anthropologists, 2006

Journalism and popular articles

• "Rebel Without a God". In These Times. December 27, 1998.
• "Give it Away". In These Times. 24 (19). August 21, 2000.
• "The Twilight of Vanguardism". Indymedia DC. June 1, 2003. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. (originally delivered as a keynote address during the "History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present, and Future" conference at the New School for Social Research on May 3, 2003)
• "Anarchism in the 21st Century". Z Magazine. January 6, 2004. Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Co-authored with Andrej Grubacic
• "On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets: Broken Windows, Imaginary Jars of Urine, and the Cosmological Role of the Police in American Culture" (PDF). December 6, 2005. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) (originally an address to Anthropology, Art and Activism Seminar Series at Brown University's Watson Institute, December 6, 2005)
• "Army of Altruists". Harper's. January 2007.
• "The Shock of Victory". Infoshop News. October 12, 2007. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012.
• "Revolution in Reverse". Infoshop News. October 16, 2007. Archived from the original on October 17, 2011.
• "The Sadness of Post-Workerism, or, "Art and Immaterial Labour" Conference: a Sort of Review" (PDF). The Commoner. April 1, 2008.
• "Hope in Common". Autonomedia.org. November 17, 2008. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• "Debt: The First Five Thousand Years". Mute. 2 (12). February 10, 2009.
• "Against Kamikaze Capitalism: Oil, Climate Change and the French refinery blockades". Shift. November 2010. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012.
• "To Have Is to Owe". Triple Canopy (10). December 7, 2010.
• "The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition, or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty". HAU. 1 (1). January 1, 2011. doi:10.14318/hau1.1.002. S2CID 159850613.
• "Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination". guardian.co.uk. September 25, 2011.
• "Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy". The Guardian. November 15, 2011.
• "Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?". The Guardian. December 16, 2011.
• Graeber, David (March 2012). "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit". The Baffler. 19: 66–84. doi:10.1162/BFLR_a_00003.
• "Occupy's liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day". The Guardian. May 7, 2012.
• "Can't Stop Believing". The Baffler. November 2012. doi:10.1162/BFLR_a_00090.
• "There's no need for all this economic sadomasochism". The Guardian. April 21, 2013.
• Graeber, David (April 2013). "A Practical Utopian's Guide to the Coming Collapse". The Baffler. 22: 23–35. doi:10.1162/BFLR_a_00129.
• Graeber, David (May 2013). "It is Value that Brings Universes into Being". HAU. 3 (2): 219–243. doi:10.14318/hau3.2.012. S2CID 144641915.
• "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs". Strike! Magazine. August 2013. Archived from the original on September 2, 2022.
• Graeber, David (August 2013). "Buncombe". The Baffler. 23: 7–9. doi:10.1162/BFLR_a_00160.
• "What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?". The Baffler. January 2014.
• "The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it". The Guardian. March 18, 2014.
• "Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes". The Guardian. March 26, 2014.
• "Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself". The Guardian. May 30, 2014.
• "Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?". The Guardian. October 8, 2014.
• "Occupy Democracy is not considered newsworthy. It should be". The Guardian. October 27, 2014.
• "Students are right to march against the markets. Why can't education be free?". The Guardian. November 20, 2014.
• "Roy Bhaskar obituary". The Guardian. December 4, 2014.
• "Soak the Rich". The Baffler. July 2014. doi:10.1162/BFLR_a_00259. A conversation between David Graeber and Thomas Piketty.
• "Dickheads". The Baffler. March 2015.
• "The Bully's Pulpit". The Baffler. July 2015.
• "Debt and what the government doesn't want you to know (video)". The Guardian. October 28, 2015.
• "Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here's why". The Guardian. October 28, 2015.
• "Turkey could cut off Islamic State's supply lines. So why doesn't it?". The Guardian. November 18, 2015.
• "Despair Fatigue". The Baffler. March 2016.
• "The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites—and I'll tell you why". The Guardian. July 5, 2016.
• "Theresa May recites Labour's lines, but doesn't mean a word of them". The Guardian. May 10, 2017.
• "I didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped". The Guardian. November 5, 2017.
• "Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin?". The Guardian. February 23, 2018.
• "How to change the course of human history". eurozine.com. March 2, 2018. Co-authored with David Wengrow.
• "'I had to guard an empty room': the rise of the pointless job". The Guardian. May 4, 2018.
• "America's Kurdish allies risk being wiped out—by Nato". The Guardian. February 1, 2019.
• Graeber, David (December 5, 2019). "Against Economics". The New York Review of Books. LXVI (19): 52, 54, 56–58. Retrieved September 5, 2020. : review of Skidelsky, Robert (November 13, 2018). Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics. Yale University Press. p. 492. ISBN 978-0300240320. Opening of David Graeber's review (p. 52): "There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist."