All these analyses recognise that reform does not happen in a vacuum.

ECONOMIST: The slow road to reform

For all these caveats, more sophisticated analyses come to broadly similar conclusions to our own.

ECONOMIST: The Big Mac Index

Which makes one wonder: where are all the economists, wringing their hands over cost-benefit analyses of these defense expenditures?

ECONOMIST: Business travel

With these data, academics can review all key decisions about determining and assigning outcomes, and conduct appropriate analyses.

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