David Graeber and Thomas Piketty discuss the economic and financial system, capital, wealth, the link between slavery and public debt, the idea of debt cancellation, asset value haircut, etc
Interviews
in media
The end of the Yale University
21 Nov 2005
How activism can lead to termination - the end of the Yale University. Funny tax implications for getting quoted in the New York Times. About activist networks.
Interview by Steven Durel, published on towardfreedom.org
The history of the phenomenon of debt
4 Aug 2011
There was no history ever written on the phenomenon of debt in spite of overwhelming presence of debt in our lives. Most uprisings have been about debt. The original form of money was credit, not barter. Coinage is invented to pay soldiers.
Modern money is still basically government war debt.
Interview by Alex Bradshaw on the No Border Network
The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
30 Jun 2018
Bullshit jobs vs shit jobs. The classification into flunkies, goons, duct-tapers, box-tickers, task-makers. We operate under a tacit system of value, which is very different from productive or unproductive categories. In addition, the labour of maintaining is invisible.
Interview by Suzi Weissman, published on jacobin.com
The Rise of bullshit jobs (In Russian)
30 Jun 2018
Рост количества бредовых рабочих мест
Translation into Russian of
https://jacobin.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeber-work-service
Interview by Suzi Weissman, published on jacobin.com
What does democracy actually mean?
3 May 2013
About "The Democracy Project" and it's philosophical questions around the history of democracy. What does democracy actually mean? And how can we aim to live in a society where everyone has an equal input into the decision-making process of how government works?
Interview by J P O’Malley, published on spectator.co.uk
Who gets rewarded
1 June 2014
Economists are not eager to explain why greater productivity has increased work hours. The casual explanation is always consumerism. However, not many new jobs have anything to do with consumer goods. The second argument – service jobs – does not hold up either because it is now bundled as “service, administrative and clerical” jobs.
Interviewed by Thomas Frank, published on salon.com
Why Dead-End Jobs Exist
10 Feb 2015
Administrative work has reached an insane 75% of total employment. The unemployed keep all those people who won’t employ them employed, by running around applying for jobs, filling out paperwork, etc. Bureaucracy provides an illusion of fairness.
Interview y David Whelan on vice.com
Would a basic income liberate wage slaves?
17 Apr 2014
Discussion about the Universal Basic Income, the value of work, the market skewed towards the whims of the rich, corporate capitalism, etc.
Conversation with Paul Solman, published on
Pbs.org