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March 28, 2006

Plagiarism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism...
Posted by Heather Hurlburt

My buddy Rodger Payne over at duckofminerva.org brags on a former graduate student for his role in uncovering large-scale plagiarism in Russian President Vladimir Putin's dissertation decades ago.*  Apparently, even in Putin's Russia, it's not quite possible to bury the past.

He wrote the dissertation in the 1990s, by the way, on state management of natural resources.  Kinda makes you want to go back to the out-of-print textbook, written by two Pittsburgh professors, and see what they had to say that struck Putin -- since he has indeed done quite a job of re-centralizing state power over Russia's natural resources, and extracting rather a lot of money and power from them. 

*Please, people, no jokes about past and future US presidential candidates. 

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