for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by dr david gruber dr graber teaches anthropology at goldsmiths university of london and has written a half dozen books that examined issues of culture politics economics and history and is a regular contributor to some of the country's leading magazines and our prayers the nation and the new left review in two thousand and six he delivered the melon kosky memorial lecture at the london school of economics an annual talk that honors outstanding anthropologists who have fundamentally shaped the study of culture and this past spring he was honored by the anthropology department at u.c. berkeley his latest book debt the first five thousand years chronicles how the concepts of debt and credit a defined human history what this means for our current credit crisis in the future of our economy and i doubt our culture from new york times has described him as a scholar whose books and articles are used in college classrooms around the world and an anarchist who is a card carrying member of the industrial workers of the world. and of quote i ca