Mostly by accident I am reading "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty and "Debt" by David Graeber. Piketty is a liberal economist who is writing abou

Mostly by accident I am reading "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty and "Debt" by David Graeber. Piketty is a liberal economist who is writing about the nature of income inequality. His thesis is that income inequality is basically inevitable without political intervention. Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist exploring the history of debt, and its relationship to social control. They are both very interesting in their own right, and they provide interesting counterpoint to each other. Using the framework of economics, Piketty sort of lays bare some serious structural problems. Graeber steps outside of that framework and challenges it. Highly recommend both of these to anyone interested in these things.