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"...a cynic might argue that we haven't really abolished slavery; we've just relabeled it. The cynic would have a point: an ancient Greek would certainly have
by AlexCoventry 10y ago
"...a cynic might argue that we haven't really abolished slavery; we've just relabeled it. The cynic would have a point: an ancient Greek would certainly have seen the distinction between a slave and an indebted wage laborer as, at best, a legal nicety."
https://books.google.com/books?id=lliTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT275 https://books.google.com/books?id=lliTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT275
- ryanmaynard 10y agoThank you for the citation; I've ordered the book. Would you happen to have any other book recommendations on the topic, or adjacent topics?
- AlexCoventry 10y agoBailout by Neil Barofsky is very good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00818J57W https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00818J57W For critical responses to Graeber's book, the Crooked Timber seminar on it is well worth reading. http://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-seminar/ http://crookedtimber.org/category/david-graeber-debt-seminar...
- AlexCoventry 10y agoAlso, Soros's The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, though Graeber's book is what really brought Soros's claims into focus for me. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HKIFR4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HKIFR4