When his father died, he was persuaded to leave his practice as a land economist to take up his father's seat as an MP in western Kenya.

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Economist Luigi Zingales is worried that the United States is becoming a land of crony capitalism and nepotism, and will suffer the fate of his homeland of Italy.

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Together they land some telling blows on Mr Goldhagen's book, which a review in The Economist on April 27th 1996 criticised for ignoring the gradations of support, compliance, ambivalence, antipathy and opposition which existed in German society during the Third Reich.

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"In the short run, desirable land gets constrained when you're in an up cycle, " says Michael Feroli, an economist with J.

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"The problems have been focused particularly on the construction and land development loans, and that's not a surprise, " says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.

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Thomas Mayer, an economist at Goldman Sachs, likens France and Germany to an aircraft carrier holding steady for the planes to land.

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