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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… David Graeber. Edited by Nina Dubrovsky. Penguin Random House. 2024. ISBN: 9780241611555.

David Graeber's The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… is a posthumous essay collection ranging three decades, with topics on inequality, the meaning of the West, democracy, technology, art, mutual aid, power, and protest. It showcases Graeber's characteristic mix of anthropological breadth, political imagination, and anti-bureaucratic rage. He returns to core preoccupations from earlier books on debt, bureaucracy, and "bullshit jobs," treating economic arrangements and hierarchies as forms of social engineering designed to benefit ruling classes while appearing natural or inevitable.

David Rolfe Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist, and public intellectual best known for his work in economic anthropology and his role in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His books Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and (with David Wengrow) The Dawn of Everything made him one of the most influential left-wing thinkers of his generation.

He served as a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics until his death.

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