The success of German-based firms in Asia's export markets has benefited suppliers in eastern Europe, notes Gillian Edgeworth, of UniCredit.

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In 1973 he was involved in a bitter struggle for control of the group with Robert Edgeworth, resulting in both declaring victory and delivering acceptance speeches.

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Suspecting Mr Edgeworth of doing the leaking, Mr Bush declared Mr Rove the new executive director of the College Republicans, and drove his rival out of the party.

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During the subsequent investigation, one of Mr Edgeworth's supporters leaked a tape to the Washington Post, on which Mr Rove and a colleague could be heard discussing modes of campaign espionage.

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The big question now is whether the tools of neuroscience will allow economics to fulfil Edgeworth's vision or, if that is too much to ask, at least to be grounded in the physical reality of the brain.

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