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Michael Hudson: ...and Forgive Them Their Debts (Paperback, 2018, Islet)

In ...and forgive them their debts, renowned economist Michael Hudson - one of the …

The Mosaic injuction (Leviticus 25), "Proclaim liberty throughout the land," is inscribed on America's Liberty Bell. That is a translation of Hebrew deror, the debt Jubilee, cognate to the Akkadian adurārum. The liberty was originally from debt peonage.

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@mouse this is sort of how i felt about it too! perhaps he nailed the fairytale storytelling style in a way that didn't land for me as an adult? loved it as an aesthetic touchpoint, tho

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