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Economics and public policy

Superstars, O-rings and lemons

Nicholas Gruen
March 9, 2006August 8, 2007
Paul Krugman had a powerful column on income inequality in America recently. Here are some extracts. What we're seeing isn't the rise of a fairly...
Literature

Was Shakespeare bipolar?

Ken Parish
March 9, 2006March 9, 2006
The author of this article at Online Opinion seems to think so. And it's a vaguely intriguing idea too; after all, lots of creative people...
Economics and public policy

Another column on tax reform

Nicholas Gruen
March 9, 2006October 8, 2015
[photopress:GST.gif,full,centered] I've written previously about how lifting marginal rate thresholds is a preferable alternative to lowering tax rates (essentially because of the inequity and the...

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