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Bullshit-Jobs and the Problem of the Stable Or: Letter to the Queen and an answer by experts

Peter Herrmann
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65 views 6 years ago FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LODZ
Deans Lecture, Univesity of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology Professor Herrmann starts his considerations with the book Bullshit jobs: A Theory (2018) by David Graeber, in which the author proves that there are too many jobs that do exist for no other reason than to exist, thus allowing people to exist by availing of an income. Professor Herrmann links that perspective with the phenomenon of waste in an economic and social context and in the search of the sources of this situation goes back to the ideas emerged in the Western Enlightment. ...more
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Bullshit-Jobs and the Problem of the Stable Or: Letter to the Queen and an answer by experts
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2018Dec 12
Deans Lecture, Univesity of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology Professor Herrmann starts his considerations with the book Bullshit jobs: A Theory (2018) by David Graeber, in which the author proves that there are too many jobs that do exist for no other reason than to exist, thus allowing people to exist by availing of an income. Professor Herrmann links that perspective with the phenomenon of waste in an economic and social context and in the search of the sources of this situation goes back to the ideas emerged in the Western Enlightment.

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Peter Herrmann

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