Are Old Testament stories economic models? | Authers' Note
- 5 years ago
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Stories from the Old Testament are really economic models, they just don't use so much mathematics. So says Charles University's Tomáš Sedláček, who claims that economics is a belief system that pretends not to be a belief system. He also tells John Authers that in many languages, "sin" and "debt" are synonymous.
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Stories from the Old Testament are really economic models, they just don't use so much mathematics. So says Charles University's Tomáš Sedláček, who claims that economics is a belief system that pretends not to be a belief system. He also tells John Authers that in many languages, "sin" and "debt" are synonymous.
► FT Global Economy: http://bit.ly/1J5mmqH
► Authers’ Note: http://bit.ly/1Liu16x
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