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The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy  Cover Image Book Book

The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy

Graeber, David. (Author).

Summary: Presents a tour through ancient and modern history to trace the evolution of bureaucracy while assessing the efficiencies and casualties of its practices in the modern world.

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  • ISBN: 9781612193748 (hc.) :
  • ISBN: 9781612195186 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    261 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Brooklyn, New York : Melville House, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : the iron law of liberalism and the era of total bureaucratization -- Dead zones of the imagination : an essay on structural stupidity -- Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit -- The utopia of rules, or why we really love bureaucracy after all -- Appendix. On Batman and the problem of constituent power.
Subject: Bureaucracy
Organizational sociology
Power (Social sciences)
Liberalism
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Imagination -- Social aspects
Stupidity

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Legislative Library.

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