Was money “a purely mental revolution”? Harari’s idealism of economic concepts
Comparing Harari with Marx on money and private property
[Section of a lithograph by April Burke]
Part 1.8 in my critique of Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. See the full series to date.
I've been developing the case that––despite being endorsed by many liberal elites––Harari is not a proponent of liberal values. This comes through in many anti-egalitarian arguments throughout Sapiens as well as …
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