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The evolution of the liberal capitalist system ground to a halt in 2007–08. The default of the apocryphal subprime mortgage borrower in America’s mid-west, a mere flutter of butterfly wings, caused a hurricane of fear to rage through the securitized debt markets and sent the world’s banking system into cardiac arrest.

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  1. A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, 1971.

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Lloyd, T. (2010). Introduction . In: Business at a Crossroads. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250987_1

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