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Here’s something you probably don’t want: another take on the causes and significance of the Great ’08 Financial Collapse to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the destruction of Lehman Brothers. The Wall Street giant blew up on Sept. 15, 2008, leaving a trillion-dollar global financial mushroom cloud that almost (they say) destroyed the world economy.

Assorted columnists have been reworking the ground over the last few weeks, their wisdom, or lack thereof, piled on top of a bazillion words produced over the past 10 years by journalists, academics and insiders. Searching Lehman Brothers on Amazon produces a list of 224 books, most of them pointing to free-market capitalism and too-big-to-fail Wall Street banking sleazeballs as the primary causes of the greatest financial and economic scare since the Great Depression.

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However, there appears to be a growing awareness that the underlying causes of the 2008 global financial disaster had little to do with free markets, executive compensation, corporate giganticism, banker malfeasance or the other mythical beasts of business that have been blamed for the financial collapse.