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Links 8-30-16

Must Read: Scott Alexander on EpiPen pricing

Economists on whether Glass-Steagall could have prevented the financial crisis. Alex Tabarrok: “When Black Lives Matter calls for a restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act we know that the Act has exited the realm of policy and entered that of mythology.”

Matt Ridley says “Economic liberty is out of fashion.”

Noah Smith thinks free market ideology has “hit a wall in terms of effectiveness”

How can those two viewpoints be reconciled? I share Bryan Caplan’s confusion

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