But that linkage may only be intelligence.
One of the first ideas he came up with was "linkage".
The slippery linkage between scientific and common-sense views of the world might seem a promising topic for Mr Latour to exploit on his side of the argument.
He and his colleagues reckon they can both estimate the rate of evolution and identify many of the evolving genes, by using a trick with the clumsy name of linkage disequilibrium.Genes are linked together in cell nuclei on structures called chromosomes.
In other words, there is a direct linkage from financial disturbances, not just a response operating through a decline in the demand for output.The third pillar of the piece is a series of comments on the relationship between inflation and economic slack.
"Linkage" between the West Bank and Kuwait was always a preposterous notion.
Linkage holds little appeal for most of the Arab governments of the Middle East: the Saudis, the Egyptians, the five (surviving) states of the Gulf Co-operation Council or even the Syrians.
Still, even the most freshly minted politician would have difficulty in creating credible linkage between the economic situation and the inner-city smash-and-grab of the past few days.
South Korea, the third-largest economy in the region and also opposed to preferential deals in the past is negotiating with New Zealand and Chile as well as Japan.Similarly, the South-East Asians are negotiating the linkage of their ASEAN Free-Trade Area (AFTA) with the existing FTA of Australia and New Zealand.
The linkage now being advanced in Europe between, on one side, America's need for allies and, on the other, its protectionist affront to those friends, is also largely bogus.
But regrettably little linkage of the various "silos" of central government has so far occurred in practice.
