Joseph E. Stiglitz

Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, lecturing on the topic “Can Illiberal Democracies Create Shared and Sustained Prosperity?” at Central European University in Budapest, had quite a bit to say on copyright and intellectual property in the course of his address. Given that the subject of his latest co-authored book, as well as […]

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Amazon has created an interactive map that classifies each US state as "red" or "blue" based on the number of Republican or Democratic books that were purchased there.

If the map is any indication of how the elections will go, the Republicans are in for a sweeping victory, as the only "blue" states based on book purchases are New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The District of Columbia has also fallen under the "blue" category.

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