brother recommends - 'this book is likely mandatory reading. very recent. made a big splash. author is a fairly committed marxist.':
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom:
he shows that before there was money, there was debt. 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, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors
and creditors.
- Noam Chomsky on civil liberties, America, Capitalism & Anarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2dzAsBZ30I
- not sure where this fits in my ponderings yet!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AgXwCJeI8
- no idea. haven't watched it
e.f schumacher https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=e.f.+schumacher.
my gran was a big fan apparantly
'economics as if people mattered" is a classic, and better in most ways than his slightly more well known "small is beautiful".' says my brother