An interesting interview (the second half of the programme) where David Graeber describes his anthropological study of 5,000
years of Debt which shows that dispensing credit precedes even the
invention of money.
Hear the interview at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0196rp1
See the book:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GYhajCQU8XIC
Harvard teaches us that hedge fund managers get rich even when they mess up
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from Dean Baker While we all know that it is important for people to get a
good education if they want to do well in today’s economy, it remains the
case t...