He has set up a series of councils of advisers to act as a parallel source of thinking to the ministries, but has left even the councils baffled as to who is in charge of what.

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Thinking about it, however, there is perhaps another parallel.

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In thinking through the economic theory of liberal trade, it is helpful to draw a parallel with technological progress.

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