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	<title>Will Wilkinson</title>
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		<title>Inglehart on Freedom and Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across this short 2008 clip of Ronald Inglehart talking to Bobbie Mixon of the NSF about the happiness findings in the latest wave of the World Value&#8217;s Survey. I&#8217;m a big Inglehart fan, so I thought I&#8217;d pass this along. 

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		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/19/inglehart-on-freedom-and-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Books that Have Influenced Me the Most</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyler started this nice meme. I&#8217;m a bit skeptical about the reliability of introspection and memory, and I think this kind of thing generally reflects one&#8217;s favorite current self-construction rather than real influence, so I&#8217;ll try to avoid that, but I won&#8217;t entirely. I guess I&#8217;ll do this roughly chronologically, and leave out the Bible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/19/books-that-have-influenced-me-the-most/</link>
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		<title>Irving Kristol Quote of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Two Cheers for Capitalism, 1978:
And what if the &#8217;self&#8217; that is &#8216;realized&#8217; under the conditions of liberal capitalism is a self that despises liberal capitalism and uses its liberty to subvert and abolish a free society? To this question Hayek &#8212; like Friedman &#8212; has no answer.
And yet this is the question we now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/11/irving-kristol-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Libertarian Moral Psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I&#8217;ve failed to blog a result about libertarians in one of Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s recent papers (with Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, 2009 &#8212; you can request a copy here) on the relationship between political ideology and his five foundations theory of moral sensibility and judgment. (You can read up on that here.)
So here&#8217;s some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/11/libertarian-moral-psychology/</link>
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		<title>Militarism and Trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daron Acemoglu and Pierre Yared find that:
increased nationalist and militarist sentiments, measured by military spending and size, are negatively associated with trade. A country is less likely to open up to neighbours if the country is also becoming more militarised, and trade between two countries grows less rapidly when both countries become more militarised.
I wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/07/militarism-and-trade/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Not a Conservative</title>
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Classy, in an &#8220;I&#8217;d Rather Be Partial-Birth Aborting&#8221; sort of way.
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		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/07/why-im-not-a-conservative/</link>
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		<title>We Are the Champions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read Daniel Larison:
Whenever possible, I refer to the Iraq war as a war of aggression, because that is what it is and has always been. One thing that has often puzzled me about the reflex to declare victory in Iraq, as a Newsweek cover storydid recently, is that I don’t know what it could possibly mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/07/we-are-the-champions/</link>
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		<title>The Logics of the Unholy Alliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I endorse the general gist of Bryan Caplan&#8217;s post on &#8220;Why Cronyism Doesn&#8217;t Explain the Free Market&#8217;s Unpopularity,&#8221; but I want to dwell a bit further on some things the post suggests.
Bryan writes:
I&#8217;ll admit that [the "hard left" is] often aware of the unholy alliance of business and government.  But it&#8217;s naive to conclude that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/06/the-logics-of-the-unholy-alliance/</link>
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		<title>Income, Taxes, and Value Neutrality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite my post about the troubles with GDP below, GDP per capita remains a very useful rough estimate of a country&#8217;s standard of living. In my happiness research paper, I included  a section defending economic measures like GDP against the charge that measures of money reflect especially &#8220;materialist&#8221; priorities. On the contrary, I argued, measuring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/05/income-taxes-and-value-neutrality/</link>
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		<title>It Ain&#8217;t Broke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people are saying government is broken. They&#8217;re mainly saying it because the Democratic health care bill isn&#8217;t going to pass in a form that gives most Democrats what they wanted. The argument, in its general form, goes like this: There is this huge problem! My team&#8217;s favored solution to the problem is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/01/it-aint-broke/</link>
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		<title>GDP, Welfare, and the Composition of Government Spending</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Henderson has an excellent essay on &#8220;GDP Fetishism&#8221; up at EconLib. Of the problem of valuing government spending, he writes:
Take the first inaccuracy—the valuing of government-provided goods and services at cost rather than at market prices. Many government programs actually destroy value rather than create it.
This highlights the fact that knowing how much the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/03/01/gdp-welfare-and-the-composition-of-government-spending/</link>
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		<title>The Progressive Fallacy on Free Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my new column in The Week.
I really struggled with space constraints on this one, and I think I may have done a better job laying out the progressive point-of-view than in rebutting it. But that&#8217;s okay. I&#8217;ll be happy if this helps anyone understand the ins and outs of the issue a bit better.
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		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/02/19/the-progressive-fallacy-on-free-speech/</link>
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		<title>Insuring the Uninsured and the Distribution of Mortality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m firmly in the McArdle/Cowen/Cannon camp in the argument over whether insuring the currently uninsured will have any net effect on mortality within this class. But I think it&#8217;s important to emphasize more than others have done that
(a) Extending insurance to the currently uninsured will have no net effect on mortality,
and
(b) Extending insurance to the currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/02/14/insuring-the-uninsured-and-distribution-of-mortality/</link>
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		<title>Sen on the U.N. Fallacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amartya Sen&#8217;s The Idea of Justice, p. 143:
There is something of a tyranny of idea in seeing the political divisions of states &#8230; as being, in some way, fundamental, and in seeing them not only as practical constraints to be addressed, but as divisions of basic significance in ethics and political philosophy.
I like to call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/02/14/sen-on-the-u-n-fallacy/</link>
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		<title>Intuitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Christopher Shea at the Boston Globe:
[A]t the website Experimental Philosophy, a professor at the City University of New York, Wesley Buckwalter, presents evidence that men and women intuit different conclusions when faced with the same sets of facts.
[...]
Buckwalter goes on to make a much broader argument: Perhaps one reason for the dearth of professional female [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2010/02/14/intuitions/</link>
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