That would settle the argument about the relative merits of private and public provision in the state sector.

ECONOMIST: Education

As NPR's John Nielsen reports, a new paper in the journal Science may help settle this argument.

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Again, though, it will rely on the European Commission's accepting the argument that global, not local, factors should settle antitrust questions.

ECONOMIST: The steel industry