Your vote is requested. Is this P or NP? "How Civilization Started"

[Monte Davis]

Scott's Thinking Like a State is also worth your attention. We (TRP
sometimes included) are accustomed to find the loss of Eden in cities,
finance capitalism, technology and global empires. Like Paul Shepard more
lyrically some decades ago, Scott makes the case that much of the damage
was done (or became inevitable) long before, when hunter-gatherers settled
down and became codependent with their crops.
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Shepard/e/B001K8QS4I

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am reading Against The Grain right now. While I'm not really qualified
> to speak to whether Scott gets the learnings of the field (not his own)
> right, so far I think it's terrific and fascinating.
>
> I ordered it because Tyler Cowen recommended it strongly (
> http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/
> 06/grain-deep-history-earliest-states.html), and I find that some of his
> recommendations really work for me. Figuring out where to find new stuff is
> always a challenge -- thanks to the P-List for recommending Logicomix,
> which also looks worthy.
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-again
>> st-civilization/amp
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone-
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
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