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I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do - The economic case for polygamy.

This might have been posted, but it makes a good argument in favor of polygamy...

http://www.slate.com/id/2136453/

The economic case for polygamy.

By Tim Harford

Posted Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006, at 2:27 AM ET

After more than a decade of war between separatist rebels and the Russian army, there are not many marriageable men to go around in Chechnya. So, acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, probably not a feminist, proposed a radical step: "Each man who can provide for four wives should do it."