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Jim Harper February 13, 2014

Transparency and liberty

John McGinnis has some kind words for work I oversee at the Cato Institute in a recent blog post of his entitled: “The Internet–A Technology for Encompassing Interests and Liberty.” As he points out, the information environment helps determine outcomes in political systems because it controls who is in a position to exercise power. The […]

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