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Of Profits and Philanthropy

In the good old days, when he used to write engaging articles about economics, the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman took on the urgent and pressing issue of how food in England got so bad and why it had suddenly got better. The problem, as he described it, was that the English had industrialised […]

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Obama, Vartan and Brest

Barack Obama once ran the Chicago arm of the Annenberg Challenge, a $500m effort to improve schools in America funded by media tycoon Walter Annenberg. It was there that he came into contact with Bill Ayers, the Weatherman terrorist, a relationship that caused controversy during the recent election campaign. Less controversially, coming into contact with […]