Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
An Analysis of David Graeber's Debt
Sulaiman Hakemy · 2017
75/100
👍 Worth It
Sulaiman Hakemy's LSE economics background makes him a credible guide into Graeber's dense anthropological argument, and the Macat format has earned real institutional adoption for exactly this kind of bridge work. Ninety-six pages cannot do full justice to a 500-page primary text, and it is not a substitute for reading Graeber directly. But as a structured entry point into one of the most provocative economic history books of the 2010s, it does its job well.
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