I really enjoyed this (audio) book while flying back from Zurich. The data are terrible and many of the assumptions are silly. The politics are, of course, uninformed, wonderfully idealistic, and naive. Despite these fatal flaws Graeber's concepts are fantastic. The anthropological analysis and social insights are very interesting and in many cases spot-on. The microeconomics are also good. Most summaries of the book gloss over or fail to mention the strong anthropological analysis the author makes and therefore the concepts sound stupid. Read the original. The phenomenon is real. The book is worth reading, 4/5 stars.
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