Surpluses
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When commodity prices boomed in the middle of the last decade, the rule called for huge budget
surpluses
– which Chile achieved, repaying almost all of its public debt and accumulating a sizable rainy-day fund.
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We've never had such gargantuan
surpluses
before.
In many ways, this is a great success story of human civilization, of the agricultural
surpluses
that we set out to achieve 12,000 years ago.
Wright points out that in certain circumstances, cooperation or non-violence can benefit both parties in an interaction, such as gains in trade when two parties trade their
surpluses
and both come out ahead, or when two parties lay down their arms and split the so-called peace dividend that results in them not having to fight the whole time.
And with the food
surpluses
that these techniques produced, it was no longer necessary for everyone to farm.
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