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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 private motivations of individuals and not studying public mindedness and the "public good" in general [...]]]></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's ideas, with a specific focus on one observation by Kasparov.
Kasparov noted that recent matches have shown that weak human chess players with computers can beat a chess supercomputer, [...]]]></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's start and snow blizzards, but I intend to post more soon and also to expand the pages on mechanisms, public economics, and networks.
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		<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's compiler that goes to some lengths to handicap non-Intel processors. I got more and more thankful for the free software folks (think GNU compiler) and all open source contributors as I was reading this. Yes, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/01/incentives-matter-and-monopolies-are-terrible/</link>
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		<title>Academic textbooks and healthcare incentives compared &#8211; Boing Boing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The always interesting Boing Boing blog has a long post on the market for academic textbooks and makes explicit comparisons of the incentives in this market and in the U.S. healthcare system. I won't quote from the article, as it is good enough for me to recommend you to read it in whole, along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2010/01/academic-textbooks-and-healthcare-incentives-compared-boing-boing/</link>
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		<title>Lecture Notes on Dominant Strategy Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather later than I was hoping, I am posting my lecture note on dominant strategy implementation. The notes are for my graduate microeconomics course at Temple University, and the book referenced is my book A Toolbox for Economic Design, co-authored with Karen A. Campbell, Emina I. Cardamone, Scott Deacle, and Lisa A. Delgado. The book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2009/11/lecture-notes-on-dominant-strategy-implementation/</link>
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		<title>Bacteria that channel Elinor Ostrom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post, from Not Exactly Rocket Science, caught my attention. I blogged about it in my more general-audience blog. Here I want to elaborate a little bit on the connection with Elinor Ostrom's work. Ostrom studies how various human societies have evolved mechanisms to manage common property resources. She shows how in many cases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2009/11/bacteria-that-channel-elinor-ostrom/</link>
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		<title>The pundits&#8217; dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Liberman says this in the Language Log today, among other good points:
Overall, the promotion of interesting stories in preference to accurate ones is always in the immediate economic self-interest of the promoter. It's interesting stories, not accurate ones, that pump up ratings for Beck and Limbaugh.  But it's also interesting stories that bring readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2009/10/the-pundits-dilemma/</link>
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		<title>Clairaut&#8217;s Theorem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason that I do not fully understand, the equality of cross partial derivatives gets all munged up, in naming at least, when taught in the typical math econ class, including the one when I was an undergraduate student. In reading this great expository blog on mathematics, I finally found a reference to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2009/10/clairauts-theorem/</link>
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		<title>Paul Romer on Elinor Ostrom&#8217;s Nobel prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My old teacher Paul Romer has a fantastic post on Ostrom's prize award. A long quote follows, but I do strongly recommend the whole thing:
Most economists think that they are building cranes that suspend important theoretical structures from a base that is firmly grounded in first principles. In fact, they almost always invoke a skyhook, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cogiddo.com/2009/10/paul-romer-on-elinor-ostroms-nobel-prize/</link>
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