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In this case, the article is guilty by association. It was created along with a number of other auction articles by the same editor. Each article had the
Milgrom book as a reference, but (for instance) no mention of "Swedish auction" in the Milgrom book was brought up in the
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You know, there's a book source in there. I'm not sure if it's a valid one, but there's a book source. The page needs more sources, but I think it's a start. Question though, are articles innocent until proven guilty, or vice versa?
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They're guilty until proven innocent by demonstration that they satisfy the various core policies (for instance, by having sources). The analogy to criminal justice is a false one.
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modern Iraqi central bank currency auctions, or other auctions related to modern Iraq. A Google scholar search returned nothing. I believe this is another neologism similar to
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Interesting point. Hmm. Well, if we can definitively exclude the
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