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Bert Rürup

Bert Rürup

Writing for PS since 2016
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Bert Rürup, a former chairman of the German Council of Economic and Professor of economics at the Darmstadt University of Technology, is currently President of the Handelsblatt Research Institute.

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    The Terrorism Paradox

    Robert Skidelsky

    As the number of deaths from terrorism in Western Europe declines, public alarm about terrorist attacks grows. But citizens should stay calm and not give governments the tools they increasingly demand to win the “battle” against terrorism, crime, or any other technically avoidable misfortune that life throws up.

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