title: The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
author:  David Graeber 
description: <b>Praise for David Graebers <i>Debt</i></b><br /> <b></b><br /> A sprawling, erudite, provocative work.Drake Bennett, <i>Bloomberg Businessweek </i><br /> <br /> Written in a brash, engaging style, the book is also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of debtwhere it came from and how it evolved.<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /> <i></i><br /> Fresh ... fascinating ... thought-provoking [and] exceedingly timely.<i>Financial Times</i><br /> <i></i><br /> The book is more readable and entertaining than I can indicate. . . . Graeber is a scholarly researcher, an activist and a public intellectual. His field is the whole history of social and economic transactions.<i></i>Peter Carey<i>, The Observer</i><br /> <i></i><br /> One of the years most influential books. Graeber situates the emergence of credit within the rise of class society, the destruction of societies based on webs of mutual commitment and the constantly implied threat of physical violence that lies behind all social relations based on money.Paul Mason, <i>The Guardian</i><br /> <br /> Part anthropological history and part provocative political argument, its a useful corrective to what passes for contemporary conversation about debt and the economy.Jesse Singal, <i>The</i> <i>Boston Globe</i><br /> <br /> Terrific . . . In the best anthropological tradition, he helps us reset our everyday ideas by exploring history and other civilizations, then boomeranging back to render our own world strange, and more open to change.<i></i>Raj Patel, <i>The Globe and Mail</i>
zlib_text: The Democracy Project is a work of nonfiction.
  Some names and identifying details have been changed.
  Copyright © 2013 by David Graeber
  All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  SPIEGEL & GRAU and Design is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.
  Grateful acknowledgment is made to
  The Weekly Standard for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Anarchy in the U.S.A.:
  The Roots of American Disorder” by Matthew Continetti, The Weekly Standard, November
  28, 2011. Reprinted by permission.
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  Graeber, David.
  The Democracy Project : a history, a crisis, a movement / David Graeber.
  p.    cm.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  eISBN: 978-0-679-64600-6
  1. Democracy—History.   I. Title
  JC421.G677 2013
  321.8—dc23        2012031998
  www.spiegelandgrau.com
  Jacket design: Jamie Keenan
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  CONTENTS
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Int