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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Samuel Bowles

Santa Fe Institute and CORE Econ.

Journal of Economic Literature 2023

Samuel Bowles of Santa Fe Institute and CORE Econ reviews “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents an interpretation of human history that revises long-held assumptions about the emergence of social inequality and hierarchy, considering the implications of this counternarrative for accounts of the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.”

DOI
10.1257/jel.61.3.1188.r2
Volume
61 (3)
Pages
1190-1198
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