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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. When a top executive at the world's largest asset manager (Peter Fisher of BlackRock) lists Debt: The First 5,000 Years by anthropologist (and Occupy Wall Streeter) David Graeber as one of his top reads of 2012 , you know something's going on.

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