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We live in an age of fierce global competition, owing in no small part to the permanent revolution of electronic communications. Today, news, ideas, images, even billions of dollars can be transferred from one continent to another at the speed of light, by a single click of a button or
If you are an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or at the University of Chicago, you stand a small but not negligible chance of receiving the Nobel Prize for economics – officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded for outstanding
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