When it comes to the latter choice, and without any disrespect to Mr. Mankiw, society could do without his extra article.

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The federal government in Rome would be empowered to dish out extra money to poor regions (see article).

ECONOMIST: Italy

The new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2), which took effect on July 1st, limits conventional ethanol to 15 billion gallons of the annual 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel that must be used for transport by 2022, and the administration has just announced extra funding for algae-based biofuels (see article).

ECONOMIST: A dysfunctional system may become more so