Very rich post, I would need to return to the start to follow the thread. I like that you identify the author's blind spot, that's some real scholarship.
This was his earlier work on the history of debt, https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years. However ,much of it resonates in his later work The Dawn of Humanity (which I also tend to recall as the history of everything.) That was in 2023 but I wish I had spent more time writing more about it but I have since learned how to do it this time around. I was also intimidated and thus my decision to do a slow read on it. Well, worth the effort.
One for the reading list! Debt is unlikely to go away as a topic (in fact, the national debt dominates conversations about Government spending in the UK currently).
Very rich post, I would need to return to the start to follow the thread. I like that you identify the author's blind spot, that's some real scholarship.
Thanks for the input. I have to make sure that I put a link to the first post in every post! Valuable observation. Here's the link to the book's page https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years
Is this Graeber, the history of everything? I confess it was an intimidating read, much like Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel!
This was his earlier work on the history of debt, https://frontalobe.substack.com/p/debt-the-first-5000-years. However ,much of it resonates in his later work The Dawn of Humanity (which I also tend to recall as the history of everything.) That was in 2023 but I wish I had spent more time writing more about it but I have since learned how to do it this time around. I was also intimidated and thus my decision to do a slow read on it. Well, worth the effort.
One for the reading list! Debt is unlikely to go away as a topic (in fact, the national debt dominates conversations about Government spending in the UK currently).