Milton Friedman leads a list of more than 500 economists from around the U.S. who today will publicly endorse a Harvard University economist's report on the costs of marijuana prohibition and the potential revenue gains from the U.S. government instead legalizing it and taxing its sale.

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The government has realised that some sectors will fall outside the points system in this way, so it has appointed a panel of economists to draw up a list of occupations that will be allowed to skip it.

ECONOMIST: Immigration clampdown

Read part 3 of this article: A core reading list for economists who want to understand the future.

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If it were up to the economists though, fatter tax subsidies would be top of the list for helping the working poor.

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While economists express cautious optimism about the lead candidates, they still have a long list of important things that need sorting out.

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In a 2006 paper, economists Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, of Columbia and Berkeley, respectively, compiled a comprehensive list of diplomatic parking violations and staffing levels to find the countries with the most violations per U.N. diplomat.

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