Are Old Testament stories economic models? | Authers' Note

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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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