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Well, again, american debt has been much higher than this in the past, and american economy boomed. The l magazine controversial and thoughtprovoking, an excellent book. The first 5000 years begins with a conversation in a london churchyard about debt and morality and takes us all the way from ancient sumeria, through roman slavery, the vast empires of the axial age, medieval monasteries, new world conquest and slavery to the 2008 financial collapse. He has also worked extensively on value theory, and has recently completed a major research project on social. In fact, people turned to the debt as an issue when it became obvious that the. Owing a debt to each other is the natural glue that keeps society together.
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