It challenges our traditional reliance on a model of human behavior that presupposes a rational person capable of being deterred by the threat of punishment.

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But it is clear we have passed a watershed and that the Politics of Debt challenges our politicians to abandon their traditional discourse and replace it with something more relevant and realistic.

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