Packet 2: Tossup 8

This thinker included an article that calls Nolan’s Batman films a reactionary “warning about the dangers of human imagination” as an appendix to a book arguing that Americans secretly love bureaucracy because they fear play. In that book, this thinker posits that market reforms always increase bureaucracy, the “Iron Law of Liberalism.” (10[1])A work by this anthropologist describes how Tsimehety “masters of evasion” would simply move away to avoid colonial administrators (-5[1])in Madagascar. (10[1])A book by this author of The Utopia (-5[1])of Rules (10[1])describes a typology including “duct tapers,” (10[2])“goons,” (10[1])and “flunkies.” (10[3])A book by this anthropologist (10[1])advocates for reviving the biblical Jubilee and attacked (10[1])the “Myth of Barter.” For 10 points, what anthropologist agitated for Occupy Wall Street and wrote books (10[1])like (10[1])Debt: (10[1])The First 5000 (10[1])Years (10[2])and Bullshit (10[1])Jobs? (10[4])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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