#1159 Michael Hudson - Temples of Enterprise: Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Michael Hudson. He's a returned guest and today we're talking about his book, Temples of Enterprise Creating Economic Order in the Bronze Age Near East. So Dr.
Hudson, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Thanks for having me, Ricardo. Okay, so what do we know about the origins of the economy in the ancient Near East? And why did you get interested in the ancient Near East specifically?
Well, there are two completely separate questions. Maybe I ought to say why I got interested first, because that shows you what I'm looking for. Before I began to read about the ancient Near East around 1980, I'd worked for 20 years in financial analysis of debt and I'd been warning that the debts of third world countries, the global south, couldn't be paid. And then I was tracing how the debt trends of the United States economy and other economies in the end couldn't be paid.
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