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Young people were expected to work for wages in the households of others because—unless one was intending to join the clergy and become a scholar—what we would consider paid work, and what we would consider education, were seen as largely the same thing, and both were a process of learning self-discipline, about “achiev[ing] mastery of one’s baser desires” and learning how to behave like a proper self-contained adult.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Stiglitz, as one of the few neoclassical economists who has periodically attempted to intellectually refute neoliberalism over the course of his career, should therefore be regarded as someone who had significant credibility tied up in expressing his conviction that the demise of neoliberalism was at hand.
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
Philip Mirowski
This book tries to show how things look if we drop the demand for a
theory which unifies the public and private, and are content to treat the
demands of self-creation and of human solidarity as equally valid, yet
forever incommensurable.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
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