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How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

Behind The Money with the Financial Times by Topher Forhecz

Apr 22, 202642:54Business

Long before modern economics, rulers such as Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia grappled with a political problem that still haunts our economies today: when people’s debts grow faster than their ability to repay them, the...

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How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt is an episode from Behind The Money with the Financial Times by Topher Forhecz. Long before modern economics, rulers such as Hammurabi in ancient Mesopotamia grappled with a political problem th...

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Published Apr 22, 2026, 42:54 long, audio available.