On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM, nathan tankus
<[email protected]> wrote:
> this is a pile of crap. why don't we, i don't know, read what graeber
> actually said in response in the original:
>
> crookedtimber.org/2012/04/02/seminar-on-debt-the-first-5000-years-reply/
>



Not so fast.

Like Brad, I am not at all impressed by Graeber's response. It is
unseemly to say the least, to refuse to at least acknowledge that he
made a mistake. Instead, it is copy-editor's fault. Or the
publisher's. Or Richard Wolfe's. Everyone's fault except his own.

And remember, this kind of intellectual laziness can do a lot of
damage to very high quality scholarship. If Graeber is smart, he'd
learn a thing or two from the experience of Mike Davis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar)#Criticisms_and_reviews

-raghu.
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