Just ordered these two, thanks.
Any other texts you can recommend for someone who wants to know more about how this arcane world of economics and flow of captial actually works?
Financial education is one aspect of my life I've always neglected and I wish to change that.
Piketty is a liberal economist who is writing about the nature of income inequality. His thesis is that income inequality is basically inevitable without political intervention.
Graeber is an anarchist anthropologist exploring the history of debt, and its relationship to social control.
They are both very interesting in their own right, and they provide interesting counterpoint to each other. Using the framework of economics, Piketty sort of lays bare some serious structural problems. Graeber steps outside of that framework and challenges it.
Highly recommend both of these to anyone interested in these things.