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

By David Graeber

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

David Graeber's essays on why bureaucracy has spread so far in modern life and what it reveals about power and violence.

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• Seth Godin: “And worth thinking hard about: two brilliant social histories by David Graeber. Debt and Bureaucracy.”
• Shane Parrish: “Anthropologist David Graeber traces the peculiar history of bureaucracy and “reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice.” At times depressing, at times hilarious, at times hard to follow (I don’t subscribe to the bureaucracy as state violence argument – for instance), the book is a worthy…”