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Day: August 19, 2013

Monday Linkage

by Charli Carpenter | 19 August 2013, 1029 EDT | | 2 Comments

Rosa Brooks compares our drone wars to Egypt's crackdown. Context by Fred Kaplan on the drone era. Lovely Umayam on the perils of crowdsourcing. Podcast: NPR's Ian Masters and Columbia University's David Philips on the Syrian refugee crisis. Area 51 documents have...

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Marketing in Everything: Economics Edition

by PM | 19 August 2013, 0211 EDT | | 3 Comments

Krugman writes:But neither I nor most economists are going to make the effort of puzzling through difficult writings unless we’re given some sort of proof of concept — a motivating example, a simple...

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