article by the Anthropologist Andrew Gardner from 2011 with the provoking title The Lazy Arabs.
First a 2 page summary of the main argument of the paper basically answering the question what the chapter is about, what the author want to tell us in this chapter?
A second part where you present your reactions on one or more issues dealt with in the chapter. Remember that in the reaction, I would like you to discuss issues, that is, present arguments for and against.
Lazy Arabs:
A Reconceptualization of the Qatari “Rentier Economy”
Andrew M. Gardner (University of Puget Sound)
For the session Purposive Economies in the Neoliberal Era, Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting,
Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2011