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“The Economics of the Parables”

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The New Testament, and Its Economic Lessons

A third of this book is the afterward that i wrote, which is a further set of thoughts on economics in the new testament. One of the things that hit me was that famous passage where the young man comes to jesus and wants to be his follower. He's admonished to engage in commerce; he's trying to get the best price. The other thing is, it doesn't say that he told him to give everything that he had to the poor. That's not in the tack o. It may very well be, yet it's not there.

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