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The carousels of power. (influence of think-tanks on world politics)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19910525
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Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavor to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most, or such as they observe the prince to delight in most." Niccolo Machiavelli

WHEN Machiavelli sat down to write "The Prince", he was feeling anxious. Unemployed after many years in government service, he wrote his handbook of advice to new rulers in an attempt to win a job with the incoming Medici administration.

The Machiavelli problem would be instantly recognisable to hordes of would-be and once-were government officials in today's ...

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