in china confucius say so some people say that maybe the creation of money led to a response which is organized religion. the leaders and followers came from the poor people and people were disenfranchised. you are right not just in christianity but judaism and the corona talks about prohibitions against interest. there's a long history to it but ultimately interest the word interest comes from the word mosque in samaria and. it translates to goad or lamb and so loans were given out in livestock essentially and he would prepay based on the offspring of that livestock. a lot of good has come from agrarian law. like in judaism you wouldn't plow the edges of the fields because she didn't want -- you wanted to save some for the people. i write about it more extensively in the book but that's a history and scripture. >> anyone else with the question? while somebody is thinking about it i wanted to ask you about this extraordinary group of words that you got for the book. how did you get paul volcker so glowingly embrace this book? >> it was really unexpected. he has an office actually acro

minute and ask if you noticed the export from china and some other countries of repression of freedom of the press? i'm talking about things like confuciuses, pressure because the nobel prize was awarded to a chinese dissident pressures on literary festivals that discuss other issues that the chinese don't particularly care for and so forth and so on. >> it's a very interesting question and it's not one i have looked at, to be honest. graham swift, the british author i mentioned at the beginning, told me that he had a book translated into chinese that had been mangled or censored, and he withdrew it. because he didn't want that done. i don't know what the particulars were. i just had, was offered by a chinese publisher a contract to publish my book "arab and jew" which is coming out in a revised edition in november in chinese, and i've just had an exchange with my agent and the chinese agent about how can i make sure they don't do anything that would disrupt the evenhandedness that i feel that i obtained. because it's easy in that kind of situation to stereotype. the chinese agent said that really there's no problem unless you criticize

in china confucius say so some people say that maybe the creation of money led to a response which is organized religion. the leaders and followers came from the poor people and people were disenfranchised. you are right not just in christianity but judaism and the corona talks about prohibitions against interest. there's a long history to it but ultimately interest the word interest comes from the word mosque in samaria and. it translates to goad or lamb and so loans were given out in livestock essentially and he would prepay based on the offspring of that livestock. a lot of good has come from agrarian law. like in judaism you wouldn't plow the edges of the fields because she didn't want -- you wanted to save some for the people. i write about it more extensively in the book but that's a history and scripture. >> anyone else with the question? while somebody is thinking about it i wanted to ask you about this extraordinary group of words that you got for the book. how did you get paul volcker so glowingly embrace this book? >> it was really unexpected. he has an office actually acro