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  1. See especially Graeber 2011 and Mauss 1990.

  2. For more on the history of philosophical thought about debt, see Padgett Walsh 2018 and Niewdana 2015.

  3. Plato 2000, 330-332; Plato 2016, Book V.

  4. Aristotle 1999, 1121b-1122a

  5. Aristotle 1990, 1133a; see also Douglas 2016.

  6. Aquinas 1975, 2a2ae78

  7. See also Dienst 2017, Kloeckner 2020, and McClanahan 2017.

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  55. Sullivan et al. 2019.

  56. U.S. Department of Education 2015.

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  60. Daly et al. 2017 and Manzoni and Streib 2018.

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  76. Tabit and Winters 2019 and Ambrose et al. 2015.

  77. College Promise Campaign 2018 and Carruthers 2019.

  78. Tolbert et al. 2019.

  79. Gallup 2019.

  80. Gallup 2019.

  81. The Commonwealth Fund 2020.

  82. Sawyer and McDermott 2019.

  83. Hamel et al. 2019.

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  85. Hamel et al. 2019.

  86. Hackney et al. 2016.

  87. Hamel et al. 2019.

  88. See, for example, Wolf 2008.

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Padgett Walsh, K., Lewiston, J. Human Capabilities and the Ethics of Debt. J Value Inquiry 56, 179–199 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-020-09770-1

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