The economic historian, Nick Crafts, has written a fascinating paper on the 1930s recovery in the UK, and it's lessons for today.

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In a fascinating paper published last year, Stanford law professor Bernard S. Black correlates market discounts for Russian firms with their tendency toward uncouth behavior (such as stripping assets or shafting minority shareholders).

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That being said, it is a fascinating paper.

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