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The commodification of man and commercialisation of history, By 'Tope Fasua

The other day, I expressed my surprise about how much of Economics my 19-years old medical student son knew. I discovered on a random day, trying to drop him off after he had come home from school. I was pleasantly shocked that he had immersed himself so deeply in the arguments that some of our […]

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