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Delineating Nation-State Capitalism
Back in the 1960s, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres suggested that precisely the opposite was the case. What if the sort of people we like to imagine as simple and innocent are free of rulers, governments, bureaucracies, ruling classes and the like, not because they are lacking in imagination, but because they’re actually more imaginative
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber on Debt, Service, and the Origins of Capitalism
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Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Rebecca Solnit, in her stunning book A Paradise Built in Hell, describes how gift economies seem to arise spontaneously in times of disaster.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
“Sure,” Fisher replied. “You got twenty bucks?” “For what?” the startled runner asked. For crimes against humanity. For the fact that “white guys” had taken advantage of the Tarahumara and other indigenous people for centuries, Fisher would explain. And if you don’t like it, too bad: “I couldn’t care less about the ultra community,” Fisher would
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