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Friday, August 2, 2013

Will Wilkinson nails it, as usual

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/08/populism-parties-and-inequality?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/succor_punch

HT: Tyler Cowen
Posted by Kevin Erdmann at 1:28 PM
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