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Works by Michael Hudson

Dr. Michael Hudson has been economic adviser to U.S., Canadian, and Mexican government agencies, and to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), as well as to corporate clients. The author of numerous books and monographs on international economics, he has taught international finance at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and Bronze Age archaeology at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts , and is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri (Kansas City).

 

The following works by Michael Hudson are available for purchase from our online Bookstore: The New Archaeology of Urbanization (four volume series), A Philosophy For a Fair Society (with Dr. Kris Feder and Dr. G. J. Miller), and his latest Harper's article on The New Road to Serfdom: An Illustrated Guide to the Coming Real Estate Collapse.

 


 

THE LOST TRADITION OF BIBLICAL DEBT CANCELLATIONS

"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.” (Proverbs 22:7).

 

Lost Tradition PDF

 

PART 1

MAP: Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

OVERVIEW

CHART: Bronze Age Mesopotamian Debt Cancellations

I. BRONZE AGE SETTING FOR THE BIBLICAL LAWS

 

PART 2

II. THE SEVENTH- AND SIXTH-CENTURY DEBT CRISES, AND THE BIBLICAL RESPONSE

III.CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES IN THE MODERN AGE

 

PART 3

APPENDICES

Mesopotamian Debt Cancellations, 2400-1600 BC

Debt Cancellations in Canaan/Israel/Judah

Debt Crises in Classical Antiquity

Biblical Passages Dealing with the Usury Problem and Debt Forgiveness

 

PART 4

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY


 

 

 

 

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