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#1159 Michael Hudson - Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East

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Why Debt Cancellations Were Necessary

Ricardo asks whether Near Eastern jubilees were real; Hudson explains rulers canceled debts to prevent depopulation and protect labor.

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