Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

After earning a B. Solomon was particularly interested in the idea of "love" arguing against the notion that romantic love is an inherent state of being and maintaining that it is instead a construct of Western culture popularized and propagated in such a way that it has achieved the status of a universal in the eyes of many. His wife philosopher Kathleen Higgins with whom he co-authored several of his books is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin.

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