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Economics

I Prefer to Think of the Stimulus Bill Itself As a Piece of Conceptual Art

Jesse Walker | 1.28.2009 9:06 PM

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Artists demand their share of the loot.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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