The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

272 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spen...

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