Graeber's Debt Prequel: Against Economics

<p>Later this year (hopefully!), I'll start a year-long series analyzing and explaining David Graeber's first big book <a href="https://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9781612194196" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Debt</em>.</a> This episode is a prequel that introduces you to some of Graeber's conclusions about economics and money, and how they fit in with Modern Monetary Theory</p><p>In 2019, less than a year before he died, Graeber wrote a <a href="https://davidgraeber.org/articles/against-economics/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">piece for the New York Review of Books</a> in which he explained, very concisely, what was wrong with the field of economics and how it’s ruined everything. <em>Debt</em> is the long story with all of the receipts. This is the more like the epilogue, or maybe the prologue.</p><p>I'll have an episode discussing Graeber's article with the MMT economist <a href="https://www.dirk-ehnts.de/en-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dirk Ehnts </a>later this month</p><p><br></p>