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Ben Smith

Ben Smith is a MA student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University and the co-author with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood of Digging for Dividends.

Ben Smith's articles

April 30, 2019

Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it

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