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The best sentence I read today
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 29, 2008
So showing that the state is not legitimate need not entail that it is morally indefensible.That's from Will Wilkinson and for those of you on EST I read it yesterday. The whole post is interesting.
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Intro to Innovation
via Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson on May 28, 2008
The topic of innovation comes up often here, so let us review some basics:Systems are parts in a structure; innovations are better part or structure designs. An innovation embodies insights whose value depends on a context, and so changes with that context.Most growth in the number or size of large systems has been due to collecting innovations.Wars, quakes, and diseases may be distributed so...
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Peter Neary: Competitive versus Comparative Advantage
via www.ucd.ie by (author unknown) on May 31, 2008
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Ten Books on Investing Recommended by Warren Buffett | Business Pundit
via www.businesspundit.com by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
Ever wonder what influences the greatest investor of all, Warren Buffett? Here are ten books that have influenced his ideas and theories on investing?
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Intellectual Rigor
via Evidence of Intent by Chiao on May 30, 2008
This is a work in progress. Suggestions are welcome. I am aiming for something amenable to Chinese translation.—A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are riding a train through Scotland.The engineer looks out the window, sees a black sheep, and exclaims, “Hey! The sheep in Scotland are black!”The physicist looks out the window and corrects the engineer, “Strictly speaking, all we...
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Power and Tenacity Collide in a Singapore Courtroom - NYTimes.com
via www.nytimes.com by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Chee Soon Juan, the most dogged critic of Singapore’s former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, finally confronted his accuser this week.
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Bob Sutton: Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
via bobsutton.typepad.com by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Work Matters
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skepticlawyer » Tyler Cowen’s ‘libertarian heresies’
via skepticlawyer.com.au by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
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Libertarian heresies
via Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen on May 28, 2008
... poverty - but because Russians tend to privilegetheir friends and contacts above all else, leading to epic levels ofcorruption. Corruption, of course, is a signal rule of law failure.He then asked, somewhat rhetorically, if liberty was confined (anddefined) by culture: ‘We should not presume that our values are asuniversal as we often think they are’. What happens, he asked...
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Our Collectivist Candidates
via Ben Casnocha: The Blog by Ben Casnocha on May 28, 2008
Last night, at my favorite cafe in San Francisco, I said to a friend that Obama's speech at Wesleyan kind of made me squirm. It's the latest in a string of events that has made me less optimistic about his candidacy. Today, I was pleased to read David Boaz's op/ed in the WSJ describing what I felt and why:Sen. Obama told the students that "our individual salvation depends oncollective...
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