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Andrew Van Sickle: A recurrent theme this year, and the subject of one of your key research papers, was drawing parallels between the dotcom bubble and this AI boom. What’s your take? Is this a case o

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acton.org The “greatest prophets” of free-market capitalism “saw the trade-off from the beginning”, says Thomas Dias. Adam Smith’s famous pin factory showed the division of labour enables the producti