The amusing thing is that when I first heard of David Graeber's Debt, I thought it might well be a useful corrective to some of the sillinesses of economists, and it went into my "to read" pile with a presumption that I would learn a con...
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As an emergency measure, given the continued shortage of high-quality DeLong smackdowns on the internet, on to the next Kindle screen of chapter 11 of David
Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years:
This, too, is double-plus unhood, as Wi...
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Attention Conservation:
1/4 Continuing, for amusement, our reading of chapter 11 of David
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2/4 Once again, @david
graeber appears to misdate the Bubonic ...
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Speaking of Apple, David
Graeber demonstrates that he has less idea of what a "laptop" is and when it was invented than your average housecat:
The greater the need to improvise the more democratic the cooperation [within companies]...
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During the past two weeks the drought of high-quality DeLong smackdowns on the internet has resumed. So it is time to turn back to the promise I made myself on April Fools Day 2013, and see whether the rest of the chapters of David Graeb...
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Henry Farrell:
Seminar on Debt: The First 5000 Years – Reply — Crooked Timber: Henry 04.02.12 at 9:58 pm: David Graeber is now on teh Twitter, telling folks that he’s going to stop paying attention to me, because I’m apparently a Ber...
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That was a refreshing chaser: watching Michael Duncan on the pseudo-intellectual pretensions of Niall Ferguson--does Ferguson believe that Gibbon would have seen any parallels between the massacre at Paris and the sack of Rome by the Got...
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Alex Tabarrok: BS Jobs and BS Economics:
David Graeber’s peculiar article on bullshit jobs (noted earlier by Tyler) does have one redeeming feature, a great example of poor economic reasoning:
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Dan Davies (dsquareddigest) on Twitter:
@davidgraeber it is not like your other "my article must have been valid because it was widely forwarded on the internet" line was better.
@davidgraeber alternatively, could I go to a par...
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Gabriel Rosser Rossman:
How the poor debtors still sell their daughters, How in the drought men still grow fat « Code and Culture: At Unfogged there’s a review (and a very funny comments thread) pointing out that the following senten...
