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No SU anymore, so what exactly is free-riding nowadays?
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Europe was free-riding on the U.S. during the cold war, and is still free-riding now.
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Actually, one can still make the case that the EU is free-riding off of US Defense Spending.
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“Europe was free-riding on the U.S. during the cold war,” perhaps.
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Re: The U.S. “subsidizing the world” (or the rest of the world “free-riding” U.S. innovation): How many doctors and nurses trained by their home countries come to the U.S. (or other western countries) to actually practice medicine?
Matthew Yglesias » Controlling Costs Through Making the Price Lower 2010
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A common critique of the federal system lately (one with which I agree, btw) is that all the red states are ‘free-riding’ on the blue states, in the form of receiving a lot more from the federal government than they pay.
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Even institutions that took no bailout money are free-riding on market confidence bought with public money.
Project Merlin: Mr Osborne's paltry deal with the banks insults the taxpayer | Observer editorial 2011
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Even institutions that took no bailout money are free-riding on market confidence bought with public money.
Project Merlin: Mr Osborne's paltry deal with the banks insults the taxpayer | Observer editorial 2011
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Regulating telecoms is good for free-riding info services, so pay thebribe.
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Matt even notes, other countries are “free-riding on innovation driven by the ultra-profitable US market”
Matthew Yglesias » Controlling Costs Through Making the Price Lower 2010
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