Forum: Diavlog comments
07-04-2010, 01:44 AM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-03-2010, 09:27 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-09-2010, 04:31 PM
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Re: Beating Up A Straw Man
For those interested in the IQ issue, here's a 2007 Cato Unbound forum (I was the editor) featuring James Flynn, Linda Gottfredson, Eric Turkheimer, and Stephen Ceci ......
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-09-2010, 03:26 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-21-2009, 03:08 PM
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Re: Acting Now to End World Poverty
Noggin: A bunch of great points. I would like to have seen more discussion of Williams' points as well.
Regarding the idea of fairness as a value to be maximized: Here's where I see Singer-style...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
12-14-2008, 10:48 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
11-23-2008, 01:20 AM
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Re: Free Will: How Much Vote Do You Make?
Great point. And I agree. The books by Glaeser and Alesina, "Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe" and Persson and Tabellini, "The Economic Effects of Constitutions" provide strong evidence that...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-28-2008, 06:20 PM
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Re: Free Will: Financial Apocalypse Explained
Hi Ginger,
I thought Arnold was uniquely positioned to clarify a lot of things that confused me and I'm sure a lot of other people. What part of Arnold's explanation of the crisis do you suppose...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
09-07-2008, 11:57 PM
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Re: Free Will: Intellectual Cousins Edition
Hi Joe,
You may be interested in my comments on Sunstein and Thaler's new book at a Cato book forum. (http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4526)
My comments are last, after Sunstein's and...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-04-2008, 12:49 PM
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Re: Free Will: The Grow-the-Economy Fan Club
In Japan,
(1) I do think it is self-defeating to try to implement a set of reforms that the public will resist. There needs to be a great deal of education before well-functioning markets in...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
08-04-2008, 12:07 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-24-2008, 01:55 PM
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Re: Keep the Butter Away from Will, Kerry!
Baltimoron, I'm no Megan, who is truly awesome, but I am a decent cook! Kerry will not starve. Anyway YOU try making sense of Spencer Ackerman over a lousy earpiece while trying to make a pie crust,...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
07-14-2008, 07:20 PM
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Re: Free Will: Hiya, Hayek!
@tes2102
"I think Wilkinson is right to argue that an awareness of the function of prices etc. should be a basic part of economic/political literacy. But so should a variety of critiques—from...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-22-2008, 08:19 PM
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Replies: 44
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-22-2008, 07:15 PM
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Re: Free Will: The Spontaneous Edition
Wonderment,
Agreed about there being no "lucky souls fallacy" when adopting poor kids. That's what Kerry and I are likely to do, but not any time soon.
You also say:
"You’ll be happier, and...
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-09-2008, 02:07 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
06-03-2008, 12:34 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
05-28-2008, 01:32 PM
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Forum: Diavlog comments
03-04-2008, 01:58 PM
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Re: WFB and BhTV
Peter, I'm not sure that Marlo's "My name is my name!" tirade in any way diminishes him. I thought it was a powerful portrayal of the logic of the street's honor culture. This is the ONE thing there...
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