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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…of the French welfare state originally came from. Anyway, she has to do a second edition. And she sends it to her friend, Turgot. And we have his response. This is like 1751, maybe. And he says, well, you know, all this liberty, equality stuff. I mean,…
…to all her friends saying, OK, I've got to change it around a little. What should I do? One of them goes to Turgot, the physiocrat, one of the great founders of modern economic theory. And this is like 1751, right before Rousseau is writing. And we…