Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money,... Zobraziť viac
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? ... Zobraziť viac
For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, ... Zobraziť viac
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our... Zobraziť viac