Tag: graeber
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Economized Spaces
I’ve spoken briefly about working on a theory of economized and non-economized spaces before. This is where I’m going to explain what I mean by all that. This article is going to be fairly abstract, largely because I have not found the kind of evidence that I really want yet. What I was hoping to…
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What Happens When a Country Defaults?
If a ruler wants to get something done, they need to give orders. Personally, there are four types of orders: suggestions, directions, requests, and purchases. On a society-wide mechanistic level, these become two types: decrees (orders without the expectation of repayment, which includes suggestions and directions) and requisitions (orders with the expectation of repayment, which…