c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…encyclopedists. What are some other examples? You never saw two dogs exchanging a bone. A famous line from Adam Smith comes from Tusi. Even Muhammad is supposed to have said in a hadith that it's impious to set prices because under free market conditions,…
…it turns out Adam Smith took a lot of his best lines from these medieval Islamic sources, from people like Ghazali and Tusi, like the famous pin factory, and apparently there's a needle factory in Ghazali in like 1100, where it takes like 25 operations…