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Alex Thomas on Krishna Bharadwaj as an ideal economist. Her daughter, Sudha Bharadwaj is a political prisoner. The first page of this Jeremy Rudd paper is getting noticed. A lot of mainstream economics is "arrant nonsense." National Public Radio has a rememberance of Charles Mills. Liam Bright has a tribute, too.

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