Make, model and ... a privacy advocate puts license plates on line
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Privacy advocates are trying to control how personal information in data bases is used. Simson L. Garfinkel, an advocate for freedom of information, wants to put data on automobile registrations in Massachusetts on a computer network.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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Panacea lost: pity the economist who tries to market social insights
Article Abstract:
Economists' research indicating that social problems such as drug abuse and crime are subject to the laws of supply and demand is being used by politicians and policy makers to back their own political positions.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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The business of education
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Many experts argue that free market forces can be used to improve the US educational system. Several free-market education reform proposals are discussed.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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