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Re:Books That Changed How I Hear Music by kqr on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:27AM (#32045067)
Also Graeber's Debt which goes deeper into the economy aspects of history, including a lot on social credit based economies.

(Gregory's classic Gifts and Commodities is high on my reading list too, but I haven't gotten around to it yet so I can't say anything specific about it.)

Re:Books That Changed How I Hear Music by wahnfrieden on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:35AM (#32045148)
And then Mark Fisher to continue the thread...

I'll bump Debt up on my queue. Haven't been able to stop thinking about Dawn of Everything since tearing through it, it turns so much about our perspective on how the world operates on its head. And by looking at our demonstrated past, not speculation on unknown futures.