Books like the utopia of rules

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a 2015 book by anthropologist David Graeber about how people "relate to" and are influenced by bureaucracies. It was published by Melville House and released on February 24, 2015.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a book by London School of Economics anthropology professor David Graeber about how people "relate to" and are influenced by bureaucracies. He describes his contemporary era as the "age of total bureaucratisation," in which public and private bureaucracies, now so intertwined as to be effectively indistinguishable, have become the main mechanisms for Wall Street profits, and describes how bureaucratization brings the threat of violence (through legal and police enforcement) into almost every aspect of daily life in wealthy countries. Graeber argues that bureaucracies are no longer analyzed or satirized as they were in Catch-22 or The Castle. He previously wrote Debt: The First 5000 Years and The Democracy Project, and was an organizer behind Occupy Wall Street. The book centers on the "political implications" of bureaucracies and Graeber's solutions. Graeber signed a book deal with Melville House towards the end of 2014. The book was released on February 24, 2015.