To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Monday, March 20, 2006
Kleptocrats and Development
In the long-running argument over why some nations prosper and others don't one of the more controversial positions holds that poverty is primarily a consequence of kleptocracy. This argument has been largely accepted by the Bush administration and by Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank. Tim Harford makes the case here.
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