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Does anybody have an opinion on David Graeber's Debt: the First Five Thousand Years? Particularly anybody with some training in economics?
It's on my list. If you read it, let us know.
Does anybody have an opinion on David Graeber's Debt: the First Five Thousand Years? Particularly anybody with some training in economics?
It's on my list. If you read it, let us know.
I've read Debt. It's good, but a bit directionless. Graeber has a number of strong ideas, but they don't really tie together into a coherent thesis. Worth reading as an overview of the subject, I think, if mebbe not so much as a polemic.
Does anybody have an opinion on David Graeber's Debt: the First Five Thousand Years? Particularly anybody with some training in economics?
Yes.Can anyone recommend a thing on the Congo Wars/Great Lakes Wars?
Does anybody have an opinion on David Graeber's Debt: the First Five Thousand Years? Particularly anybody with some training in economics?
Making of the Middle Ages by R.W. Southern remains the gold standard for 11th Century Europe when studied holistically (political, economic, social, cultural history). It's short and readable, but it doesn't hold your hand.
R.W. Southern said:but it remains true that the proportion of the monastic population of the eleventh century, which had adopted the life by their own volition, was probably no greater than the proportion of volunteer in a modern army.