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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Moral Argument for Debt Cancellation

In the old testament case, debtors were able to marshal a particularly powerful moral argument. What we see in the bible and other religious traditions are traces of the moral arguments by which such claims were justified. The language of the market place has come to pervade every aspect of human life,. even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised agains it.

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