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Work A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

James Suzman

"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

James Suzman's new book, Work, examined the deep history of labor from the Stone Age to the age of robots, arguing modern work is driven by desire rather than need.

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Sussman's new book is called Work, A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots.

— Episode: Why Do We Work So Damn Much?

Episode: Why Do We Work So Damn Much?

James Suzman's new book, Work, examined the deep history of labor from the Stone Age to the age of robots, arguing modern work is driven by desire rather than need.

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Sussman's new book is called Work, A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots.

James Suzman, your book is Work a deep history from the stone age to the age of robots, I enjoyed it tremendously and recommended very much even as I betrayed almost every message in it while working on this to create the podcast.

Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

The book explores the history of work, starting from the Stone Age hunter-gatherer economies to the modern era of robots. It examines how work has changed and the different ways societies have organized their economies.

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My sense of it based on recent and contemporary hunting and gathering societies was that life had a very high level of satisfaction.

— Episode: 605. What Do People Do All Day?

Episode: 605. What Do People Do All Day?

The book explores the history of work, starting from the Stone Age hunter-gatherer economies to the modern era of robots. It examines how work has changed and the different ways societies have organized their economies.

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My sense of it based on recent and contemporary hunting and gathering societies was that life had a very high level of satisfaction.

When I read that, I was very struck by it. It's one of those big observations that for me, at least, is obvious in retrospect.

the principal purpose of my undertaking with this book is to, quote, loosen the claw-like grasp that scarcity economics has held over our lives and thereby diminish our corresponding and unsustainable preoccupation with economic growth.

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