Debt as weapon: Manufacturing poverty from Judah to today
It seems like a long distance from today’s crisis of economic debt in many countries and the debts in ancient Judah in the 8th century, but the systematic means of using a debt as a weapon to control the poor might be a common denominator of the two ages.
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| description | It seems like a long distance from today’s crisis of economic debt in many countries and the debts in ancient Judah in the 8th century, but the systematic means of using a debt as a weapon to control the poor might be a common denominator of the two ages. |
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| title_short | Debt as weapon: Manufacturing poverty from Judah to today |
| title_sort | debt as weapon manufacturing poverty from judah to today |
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