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Stone Age Economics

Marshall Salins

Recommended by Seth Godin (1)

2012

Despite the clever title, this is actually a book about how primitive cultures worked. One key takeaway is that hunter-gatherers were the idle rich. They worked about three hours a day and spent the rest of the day lolling about.

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