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Four thousand years ago, Babylon’s ruler, Hammurabi, introduced wage and price controls. We can still read them on clay tablets and columns. This week Sushil Wadhwani, put forward a similar policy, calling it a “tax on inflation” perhaps to disguise its reality. ....

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