
Grace Blakeley, Owen Jones, Gillian Tett and Yanis Varoufakis: David Graeber’s ‘Debt’
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How Did David Grabe's Comments or Thoughts About Debt Influence You?
Debt is global, universal and implicated in power structures all round the world. The permanent indebtedness and bankruptcy of greece was a means by which to ensure that greek governments did as they were told. In two thousand 15, when i was in the finance ministry of the most bankrupt european country,. I remember amartiasen, the great indian british economist, saying to me, you know what your problem with you, janis? Gelian: "You can't compete with the cat"
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