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		<title>Appearance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This site looks good on Mac OS X and Linux computers. Due to limitations of the way Windows renders online text, the fancy fonts (Adobe Minion Pro for text and Adobe Myriad for headlines, both via typekit.com) appear pixellated on &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/09/appearance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency: A Term to Use Sparingly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microeconomic Theory II for PhD students starts again on Tuesday here at Temple University. I intend to talk about understanding economics as a way to (i) see clearly what the objectives are (whether they come from us as economists or &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/08/efficiency-a-term-to-use-sparingly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brad DeLong Says Economic Theory Does Not Exist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a column that ran today in the Project Syndicate, Brad DeLong said this: One of the dirty secrets of economics is that there is no such thing as “economic theory.” There is simply no set of bedrock principles on &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/07/brad-delong-says-economic-theory-does-not-exist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Economics, Identity, Norms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently started taking quite seriously the need for economics to widen its scope away from the study of models that make individuals appear as autistic automata. This has meant that I am reading a lot of stuff and &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/06/economics-identity-norms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Site status update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Public Economics page is under construction and I will be filling out the other pages soon. I have added to Links I Like (on the right) a new site, A Fine Theorem. Regular weekly posts are starting this week.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/05/site-status-update/</link>
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		<title>A good example of the importance of incentives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, make this a bad example if you must. It is an example of bad incentives that produce bad outcomes. I am referring to the article by Bebchuk, Cohen, and Spamann in the Project Syndicate web site, in which the &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/03/a-good-example-of-the-importance-of-incentives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The degradation of US democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this post by Daniel Little and weep. If you care about democracy and the public good, that is. This kind of thing is a main reason that standard economics has done a serious disservice to humanity by emphasizing the &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/03/the-degradation-of-us-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/03/the-degradation-of-us-democracy/</link>
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		<title>What chess champion Gary Kasparov can teach us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Gary Kasparov wrote an essay about humans and computers playing chess, under the guise of a book review. Andrew McAfee today published an essay on Kasparov&#8217;s ideas, with a specific focus on one observation by Kasparov. Kasparov noted that &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/02/what-chess-champion-gary-kasparov-can-teach-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/02/what-chess-champion-gary-kasparov-can-teach-us/</link>
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		<title>Posting hiatus to end soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit backed up by the semester&#8217;s start and snow blizzards, but I intend to post more soon and also to expand the pages on mechanisms, public economics, and networks.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/02/posting-hiatus-to-end-soon/</link>
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		<title>Incentives matter and monopolies are terrible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monopoly (or near monopoly) is always very bad for consumers. Check out this article from OSnews.com about Intel&#8217;s compiler that goes to some lengths to handicap non-Intel processors. I got more and more thankful for the free software folks (think &#8230; <a href="http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/01/incentives-matter-and-monopolies-are-terrible/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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