The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy
Graeber, David2016
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Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber takes a journey through history to trace the peculiar and fascinating evolution of bureaucracy over the ages. He starts in the ancient world, looking at how early civilisations were organised and what traces early bureaucratic systems have left in the ethnographic literature.
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Author:
Graeber, David, author
Imprint:
Brooklyn : Melville House, 2016.
Collation:
261 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781612195186 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
302.35
Language:
English
BRN:
1162583
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