Graebers arguments about how the bureacratic/capitalist mindset in academia stymies innovation are so truthy, I am dreading the inevitable demonstration that hes got his history or economics completely wrong. Giovanni Arrighi has noted that after the South Sea Bubble, British capitalism largely abandoned the corporate form. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, Britain had instead come to rely on a combination of high finance and small family firms—a pattern that held throughout the next century, the period of maximum scientific and technological innovation. (Britain at that time was also notorious for being just as generous to its oddballs and eccentrics as contemporary America is intolerant. A common expedient was to allow them to become rural vicars, who, predictably, became one of the main sources for amateur scientific discoveries.) blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-david-graeber-on-the-degradation-of-research/2014/03/23
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