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Legal Plunder Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe

Daniel Lord Smail

As Europe began to grow rich during the Middle Ages, its wealth materialized in the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of ordinary households. Such items were indicators of one’s station in life in a society accustomed to reading visible signs of rank. In a world without banking, household goods b...

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The book "Legal plunder" by Frederic Bastiat was mentioned as an example of how legal systems can be used to take away wealth and property from people in a way that is morally wrong, and was compared to theft or robbery.

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Frederic Bastiat, you know, book "Legal plunder", where if you go and take somebody's money from and rob it from their house, you're going to jail, but if you pass a set of laws to create a tax system...

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The book "Legal plunder" by Frederic Bastiat was mentioned as an example of how legal systems can be used to take away wealth and property from people in a way that is morally wrong, and was compared to theft or robbery.

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Frederic Bastiat, you know, book "Legal plunder", where if you go and take somebody's money from and rob it from their house, you're going to jail, but if you pass a set of laws to create a tax system and you take 70 percent of what they earn, it's legal all of a sudden, right. So that's what's called legal plunder.

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