BTW, this quote from the article is telling: "But because he was a lowly graduate student asking favors of some of the most respected economists in the world, he got no reply, until one afternoon..." You know, the "favor" of doublechecking their dangerously buggy academic product for them.
Maybe that was a terrible exaggeration from the journalist. Who knows what happened in this particular case? But in contrast, Graeber, who couldn't even be considered for a professor job in North America (but gets jobs elsewhere, like the London School of Economics), said: "What collegiality means in practice is: 'He knows how to operate appropriately within an extremely hierarchical environment.' You never see anyone accused of lack of collegiality for abusing their inferiors. It means 'not playing the game in what we say is the proper way.'" (http://chronicle.com/article/A-Radical-Anthropologist-Finds/...)
(Afterwards, Graeber tweeted, "in the interview I added "you can be accused of 'lack of collegiality' for being too nice." That is, too nice to students." One reason the dismal pseudoscience gets even little things wrong.)
I liked Graeber's recent _Debt: The First 5000 Years_. If you can't easily obtain/afford it, IIRC the author recommended just downloading it from somewhere. (http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867)
BTW, this quote from the article is telling: "But because he was a lowly graduate student asking favors of some of the most respected economists in the world, he got no reply, until one afternoon..." You know, the "favor" of doublechecking their dangerously buggy academic product for them.
Maybe that was a terrible exaggeration from the journalist. Who knows what happened in this particular case? But in contrast, Graeber, who couldn't even be considered for a professor job in North America (but gets jobs elsewhere, like the London School of Economics), said: "What collegiality means in practice is: 'He knows how to operate appropriately within an extremely hierarchical environment.' You never see anyone accused of lack of collegiality for abusing their inferiors. It means 'not playing the game in what we say is the proper way.'" (http://chronicle.com/article/A-Radical-Anthropologist-Finds/...)
(Afterwards, Graeber tweeted, "in the interview I added "you can be accused of 'lack of collegiality' for being too nice." That is, too nice to students." One reason the dismal pseudoscience gets even little things wrong.)