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• The Ahistoricity of the SIVH, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 694
  The Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis ( SIVH ) is a poor predictor of political views in the modern U.S.  In his interview in FP2P , Joel Mokyr claims that the SIVH has been a flop for centuries: My forthcoming book is called The Enlightened Economy , and it will be a long discussion of the economic history of ...
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• "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts..."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 708
  "... negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world."
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• All this just for us? An awfully big waste of space . . .

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 116
  
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• Why Kant Was Smarter Than Behavioral Economists

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 550
  by Mario Rizzo   Behavioral economists who like to indulge in normative pronouncements have decided that quasi-hyperbolic discounting violates rationality. In other words, suppose a person decides today that he will give up the hamburgers he loves beginning in 2010 (because of the high fat content). But then when ...
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• Intelligence = Stupidity?

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 125
  This has not been a good week for blogging. Too much leading edge turbulence for the upcoming peak. Plus my annual ritual inspection of the teeth was this week and while the matter should have been of minor concern it was nonetheless disproportionately stressful. Somewhere along the way of our developing intelligence ...
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• Annotation Please

  
  Almost Diamonds — Authority: 488
  Greg wrote a post yesterday that is academia erotica . No, really, although its probably not what you think from that description. It was like they were standing at far end of a room full of books and periodicals, with no walls separating the room from the outside, standing on the edge of an unfinished floor and ...
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• Happy Xmas

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 116
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• Ephemeral Ruminations: The Oil Drum | There is plenty of oil but . . .

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 441
  Article Reference:  http://delicious.com/reikiman The Oil Drum | There is plenty of oil but . . . Battery Startup Imara Shuts Down After Funding Troubles ...
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• Rational Benevolence Collab, Meeting # 6, 2nd Thurs of Dec.

  
  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' — Authority: 484
  Start: Dec 17 2009 - 7:00pm End: Dec 17 2009 - 8:30pm Come to the next Rational Benevolence Collaboratory meeting this Thursday @ 7:00 pm downtown at the De Colores bookstore, 507 Washington Street (after bookstore business hours). We can have an informal bull-session to help us get acquainted. And/or We ...
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• Philosophy and Rational Irrationality, by Bryan Caplan

  
  EconLog — Authority: 694
  Now that Robin knows what philosophers think , he likes them more .  I recently received a thoughtful email from Ph.D. philosophy student Matthew Skene that makes the opposite case.  Heres the full message, reprinted with permission. My name is Matt Skene, andIm a graduate student in philosophy at Syracuse ...
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• Rationality visualization

  
  Solution Focused Change? Doing What Works — Authority: 119
  In his book What Intelligence tests miss, Keith Stanovich explains how cognitive psychologists define rationality. They distinguish two basic forms of rationality: 1) INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY, behaving in such a way that you achieve what you want, and 2) EPISTEMIC RATIONALITY, taking care that your beliefs correspond ...
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• Knowing together, better

  
  Enlightened tradition — Authority: 99
  I am a bit of an e-mail hoarder, so occasionally I go back into the store and find an apparently random message that strikes a new chord. So it was when I stumbled across a message from Kaye Vivian to the ActKM mailing list dating back to July 2008. Her e-mail simply drew attention to an article by Richard ...
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• A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 514
  Best of the Web: A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism Jeff Gates Criminal State Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:00 EST “ It’s very good….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel) “. Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September ...
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• Illusions and personal decision-making

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 479
  Behavioral economist Dan Ariely uses classic visual illusions and his own research to show that we are often not in personal control of our own-decision-making. Outside factors often compel our decisions, even though we always insist that we are always in control or our choices. The organ donation and ibuprophen ...
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• Reflection on Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions (part 2)

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 106
   Thomas Kuhn’s influential book “ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” ignited a firestorm of debate and controversy in 1962 which continues unabated to this very day. Noted as the most widely cited book in the 20th century, Kuhn’s writing has penetrated the public consciousness to shape our collective ...
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• Peak oil denial diagnosed with neoclassical autism | Energy Bulletin

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 441
  Economists like to suggest that energy is like any other commodity, and that one energy form can be substituted for another. The term is "elasticity". But it shows they are lost in their equations and have no common sense. Obviously oil serves a different function than coal, but theyre both "energy". Hence if you ...
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• Peak oil denial diagnosed with neoclassical autism | Energy Bulletin

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 441
  Economists like to suggest that energy is like any other commodity, and that one energy form can be substituted for another. The term is "elasticity". But it shows they are lost in their equations and have no common sense. Obviously oil serves a different function than coal, but theyre both "energy". Hence if you ...
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• Money for Monogamy

  
  Economic Sociology — Authority: 396
  Another way of monetizing infidelity: these t-shirts seemed to crop up for sale online seconds after speculation began about Woods cheating on his wife. In all the public discourse surrounding Tiger Woods and his alleged infidelities, one of the primary topics of interest has been the millions of dollars he may ...
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• Chipping the web: December 4th

  
  Chip's Quips — Authority: 115
  Home Depot – So funny! – iBLOGthere4iM So true — I wish I hadnt just slid into a new category a couple of months ago. Tags: randymorin humor aging homedepot Edge: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD —  By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Masterful. Long, but well worth the read. Thanks, Erich ...
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• Wisdom from the Good Friar

  
  HarvestBoston — Authority: 411
  I’ve often struggled — both with myself and with non-religious friends — with the words to describe why I follow Jesus and, in effect, “blindly” accept all those crazy propositions about him. Born of a virgin. All the miracles. Resurrection. The rational part of my brain can’t wrap itself around many of ...
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