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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
4.21 average rating, · 28k ratings
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
4.02 average rating, · 36.3k ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
4.21 average rating, · 7.3k ratings
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber
4.02 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Karl Polanyi
4.21 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
4.10 average rating, · 5.5k ratings
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
4.12 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
4.13 average rating, · 4.6k ratings
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The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
Georges Bataille
4.08 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
David Graeber
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
Joseph A. Tainter
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Europe and the People Without History
Eric R. Wolf
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Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
Gillian Tett
4.00 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Conquests and Cultures: An International History
Thomas Sowell
4.45 average rating, · 975 ratings
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society
Fei Xiaotong
4.40 average rating, · 841 ratings
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
David Graeber
4.22 average rating, · 854 ratings
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The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
James Ferguson
4.29 average rating, · 653 ratings
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman
4.02 average rating, · 680 ratings
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Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
Vaclav Smil
4.06 average rating, · 628 ratings
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
William N. Goetzmann
4.03 average rating, · 532 ratings
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