Miscellaneous
A prince, a rockstar, and LSE director Minouche Shafik walk into a bar. It happened last week, at Davos. Well, we’re not sure about the bar part. Still, we wonder: what happens at Davos? Is it truly the annual meeting of neoliberals patting each other on the backs, or do we owe some of our important political achievements to these kind of informal meetings with Bono? We talk to David Graeber, anthropology professor and just back in London after spending time with the Gilets Jaunes. What is his perception of the man who was conspicuous by his absence, French president Emmanuel Macron? Want to know more? Look no further: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/davos-world-economic-forum-global-elites-populism-macron-trump-switzerland-a8737291.html Rutger Bregman - Utopia for Realists (2014) David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011) David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs (2018)