
Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber
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The Price of Food Can Predict Riscoby Throughout History
Price of food can predict ri scoby throughout history. In the 19 seventies and the 19 eighties, in these kind of i m f ctural adjustment programms usually required cutting of food and fuel subsidies. One researchri found had essentially cocorrelated this to the weather. And if we think of capitalism, or even gen market base orders, as a situation where people sell their labor and in return get money, then they take this money to the market and buy stuff that they need for their basic survivol. If you take out the subsidy, then this becomes very quickly a very existential kind of threat.
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