Thanks for the compliment, Carrol, but I think this thread is actually
quite relevant to what I'm talking about, which is that credit -- not some
mechanical analogy of "self-adjustment," compensation or rebound --
underlies the counter-action to the displacement of workers by machines or
the conservation of fuel through improved efficiency.

I haven't read Graeber's book, I suppose the "5000 years" in the subtitle
is a bit intimidating for me. I have a hard enough time keeping a mere 300
- 400 years in my head all at once! That's why I like Carl Wennerlind's
"Casualties of Credit: On a similar topic, I highly recommend a new book
called "Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720."
A nice tidy century.


On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> And this thread is drowning  out Tom Walker's important commentary on what
> the left needs.
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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