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How to escape the resource curse? Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is an artful yet flawed reprise of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book on the same topic. Government partnership comes with a high hidden cost.

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony bestows awards in more than a dozen categories, and — as Samuel Johnson once said of “Paradise Lost” — “no one ever wished it longer.” But if just one ...

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