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Anarchy - In A Manner of Speaking: Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman by David Graeber; Mehdi Belhaj Kacem (Contribution by); Assia Turquier-Zauberman (Contribution by)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Anarchies Ser.
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact on the international left cannot be overstated. Graebe ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Category: Business, Economics and Law
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
Category: Non-Fiction
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the Phenome ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginn ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Before there was money, there was debtEvery economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to suppo ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Category: Business
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginn ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing- Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
Category: History
The Democracy Project is an exploration of anti-capitalist dissent and new political ideas from David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and a leading member of the Occupy movement. From the earliest meetings for Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber - activist, anarchist, and anthropologist - f ...Show more
Fragments Of An Anarchist Anthropology by GRAEBER DAVID
Category: Culture
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy--everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanti ...Show more
Mutual Aid - An Illuminated Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin; N. O. Bonzo (Illustrator); David Graeber (Introduction by); Andrej Grubačić (Introduction by); Ruth Kinna (Foreword by); Allan Antliff (Afterword by); GATS (Other)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Kairos Ser.
One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer whose seminal critique of the hypothesis of competition promoted by Social Darwinism helped revolutionize ...Show more