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As we tour the four-hundred-year history of capitalism through its various phases of development, we see that financial system instability is always there lurking in the shadows.
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Magnuson, J. (2018). Introduction. In: Financing the Apocalypse. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04720-7_1
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