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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>
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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>Not sure I sanction this, either</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/01/not-sure-i-sanction-this-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports that some Western companies continue to work in Burma despite pressure from governments and activists. The European Union bans and penalizes commercial activity that clearly supports the Burmese military regime and its repression. The United States and a few other countries impose sanctions that make business in the country nearly impossible. On [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/11/25/war-tax/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: War tax?'>War tax?</a></li>
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		<title>No cheers for austerity?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/21/no-cheers-for-austerity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/21/no-cheers-for-austerity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to revolution Europe Ask any youngster&#8211;eating vegetables is no fun.  Or ask Europeans for that matter.  Major European economies have begun to make tough choices to rein in public benefits and curtail government programs in order to reduce their debt burden.  Much of the attention has been on Greece, partly because their austerity measures [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/26/linker-redux/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Linker redux'>Linker redux</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/07/14/assassination/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Assassination!'>Assassination!</a></li>
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		<title>Worlds apart –why an open society may be better after all</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/21/worlds-apart-%e2%80%93why-an-open-society-may-be-better-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Han wrote about Thomas Friedman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times on the “green economy,” contrasting the technocratic approach of China’s authoritarian rulers with the haphazard and undirected approach of the American political system. Han suggested that technocratic and authoritarian governments may have an advantage for costly but necessary endeavors. There is certainly [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/10/the-military-makes-a-non-moral-case-for-responding-to-climate-change/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The military makes a non-moral case for responding to climate change'>The military makes a non-moral case for responding to climate change</a></li>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/14/hope-and-change-in-schooling-are-sorely-needed/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/07/are-you-a-demand-sider-or-a-supply-sider/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>When choice doesn&#8217;t matter</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/13/when-choice-doesnt-matter/</link>
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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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