Book Notes
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David Graeber
Anthropologist David Graeber's argument that a large share of modern jobs are pointless even to the people doing them, that this inflicts a quiet moral and psychological harm, and that managerial capitalism keeps producing such work for political rather than economic reasons.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's argument that economics is less a subject than a set of tools for asking the right questions, applied to cheating teachers, the KKK, crack dealers, and crime rates to show that incentives — not morality or intuition — usually explain what's really going on.
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