Roleplaying games from historical research
Piketty notes in Capital in the 21st Century that one of the main ways to get around usury laws was to loan money to a noble, not against interest, but against the future production one of a nobleman’s holdings. The creditor then gets into the tax farming business, which we have discussed in Lords of…
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In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty notes that the reason that all of the nations of the Earth can be in debt at the same time is that about 4% of the world’s production disappears from the calculations. This money is basically filtering into a shadow economy. Some of it eventually resurfaces as…
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Games From Folktales 