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The Quiggin case for inflation. In keeping with the blog tradition of bringing you tomorrow's talking points today, I thought I'd look a bit further than the current election campaign and consider the implications of a Bush victory

Invisible Hands & Markets: Science and technology don't exist in a vacuum
I was intrigued to learn last week that one of the United Nation's leading candidates for Iraqi leadership is Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani, a nuclear chemist and former science adviser to Saddam Hussein. Al-Shahristani spent more than a decade in Abu Ghraib prison for refusing to participate in Hussein's weapons program and finally escaped during the Gulf War.
You need to get political, even if science is a bunch of politicized factions
· There's No Future without Politics [Elsewhere Democracy, Taxes, and Wealth]
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· · · · · · · State Policy Inventory This the most useful thing I have digged all week