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Protecting infant industries
It is sometimes argued that developing countries should protect their firms from international competiton (or should…
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When your hard disk fails
A very timely reminder from John Naughton in the Observer. You rely on your hard disk…
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The Transformation of Tanzania
Jonathan Power writes in Prospect about his return to Tanzania. There is no doubt that aid…
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Quoted in the Scotsman
I’m quoted in today’s Scotsman newspaper about the forthcoming G8 meeting. Above all, however, he vowed…
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The so-called Globalization Institute reports daft survey
Alex Singleton moved from the Adam Smith Institute to set up The Globalization Institute (which as…
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Markets everywhere
The barking-at-the-moon lunatics who are against government provision of any goods and services that private citizens…
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Money down a rat hole?
Here is a characteristically thorough and well-informed fisking dished out by Jim, at Our Word is…
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Income tax and redistribution
Tim Worstall has an interesting post in which he argues that redistribution is made harder by…
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The beginning of the end for Microsoft?
Michael Dell says he would license Unix-based OS X from Apple for Dell computers, if Apple…
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New ODI blog
The Overseas Development Institute has set up a blog on 2005. They are independent, well-informed and…
