Intro to Economic Life 3: Everyday Communism, Reciprocity, and Hierarchy

What David Graeber can teach us about distribution

In Part 1 we covered the primordial foundations of economic life: people have always survived by drawing upon the earth and each other, and have different modes of interdependence (reproduction, production, distribution, consumption) that blend into each other.

In Part 2 we looked at debates over ‘human nature’, which might be used to describe what drive…