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		<title>Man at the top</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/09/man-at-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Distributive Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[harry frankfurt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with inequality Writing for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof criticizes the rising inequality in America, comparing our economic situation to the famous “banana republics.”  According to Kristof: In the past, many of us acquiesced in discomfiting levels of inequality because we perceived a tradeoff between equity and economic growth. But there’s evidence [...]


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		<title>Do not pass GO. Do not collect heart transplant.</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/20/do-not-pass-go-do-not-collect-heart-transplant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The complexity of allocating health care morally ABC News reports that the morbidly obese are unlikely to receive heart transplants because their chances of recovery are so slim. Some transplant centers purportedly have a Body Mass Index cutoff of 35. Although nobody died in the making of the ABC story, the same cannot be said [...]


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		<title>Hope and change in schooling are sorely needed</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elitism and egalitarianism in education Courtland Milloy suggests at the Washington Post that D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s vision for the D.C. school system is both inspiring and quixotic. Milloy quotes Rhee as suggesting that elitism, “reluctance by the city’s haves to share classrooms with the have-nots,” is the single largest obstacle to school reform. [...]


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		<title>Are you a demand-sider or a supply-sider?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/07/are-you-a-demand-sider-or-a-supply-sider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the Obama administration has designated $50 billion dollars for infrastructure improvements as part of efforts to jump-start the US economy. The claim that the project will help jump-start the economy is contestable, but difficult to prove either way. Broadly speaking, there are two influential schools of macroeconomic thought. One is the [...]


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		<title>Executive compensation</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/02/executive-compensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>luke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I investigated how much CEO&#8217;s deserve to make. My conclusion, we needed better tools for quantifying the worth of executives to a company. This presents a further challenge, that of determining the value of the executive to the company. Supporters of current executive salaries would argue that these people are the most [...]


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		<title>Trading values</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/30/trading-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Syndicate has an ongoing series by Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati on “The Open Economy and its Enemies.” There is more or less a consensus among economists that free trade promotes economic growth; the law of comparative advantage still holds nearly two centuries after it was formulated. But the opinions of both the public [...]


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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/23/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equality butts heads with freedom Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith write at Politico that a new debate about first principles and the role of government has replaced the social issues at stake during the “culture wars” of the last three decades. This dispute over first principles is deeply entwined with questions of national identity and [...]


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		<title>Educating the public</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/19/educating-the-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pay, accountability and teachers’ unions The Los Angeles Times has a new series “exploring the effectiveness of public schools and individual teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.” The study, which relies on standardized test scores rather than more comprehensive metrics, is obviously far from perfect. But, as the LA Times explains, this is [...]


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		<title>When choice doesn&#8217;t matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles asks some provocative questions in his post today about the role of government versus the power of the market to lift people out of extreme destitution. But his approach, which focuses on individual responsibility and government constraint, begs the question by assuming, first, that all government action counts as a constraint on liberty and, [...]


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		<title>Poverty, choice and coercion</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/13/poverty-choice-and-coercion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the poor be allowed to choose? The New York Times reports that malnutrition and starvation remain stubbornly entrenched decades after India’s Green Revolution, which modernized agricultural practices, massively increased agricultural yields and eliminated the specter of famine. The existing government food distribution system relies on bureaucratic rationing, through which the poor are given ration [...]


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