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		<title>UPenn Working Paper &#8211; &#8216;Mediocracy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to self - read this after the thesis is done. "Mediocracy" PIER Working Paper No. 07-007 Author: ANDREA MATTOZZI California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Contact: ANTONIO MERLO University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics Full Text ABSTRACT: In this paper, we study the initial recruitment of individuals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=275&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back&#8230; kinda</title>
		<link>http://plouffie.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/im-back-kinda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my three readers, I&#8217;m kinda sorta back after a hectic few months of grad school applications, my thesis, my other long paper, my thesis again, random issues, and more busyness.  Get it? A brief update&#8230; -My thesis is a bit behind schedule (the paper on the EMS is finished), with data missing, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=274&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headline of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiji&#8217;s new &#8216;PM&#8217; says coup illegal but democracy overrated from the AFP (by David Brooks)&#8230; SUVA (AFP) &#8211; Fiji&#8217;s newly-imposed premier has admitted the army ouster of the elected government was illegal and that elections could be two years away, but said the nation did not need Western-style democracy. In his first public comments a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=271&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I wonder how to answer this&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://plouffie.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/i-wonder-how-to-answer-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Stanford graduate application] How would factors such as your background, work and life experiences, special interests, culture, socioeconomic status, race, or ethnicity contribute to the entering class and hence to the experience of your Stanford classmates? Please describe these factors and their relevance. (700 characters maximum) Umm&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=270&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becker &amp; Posner on Friedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mplouffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Becker, one of Milton Friedman&#8217;s most well-known pupils, and Richard Posner comment on the late Mr Friedman&#8217;s contributions to economics.  Mr Becker is also the recipient of a Nobel Prize.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=268&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Milton Friedman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mplouffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel Prizewinner in economics, died early this morning. Reading this news this morning made everything seem slightly surreal. From the opening of his acceptance speech: When the Bank of Sweden established the prize for Economic Science in memory of Alfred Nobel (1968), there doubtless was &#8211; as there doubtless still remains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=267&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pigou Club makes it to The Economist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Mankiw&#8217;s Pigou Club, which calls for a higher tax on gasoline, has been making waves just about everywhere. Theoretically, an increase of $1 in gas taxes should yield $100 billion in revenue for the federal government. Other than the fact that such a move by itself is very politically infeasible, and that the current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=264&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Political Competitiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mplouffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casey Mulligan and Kevin Tsui apply an interesting new approach to model political competition in democracies: Abstract (NBER Working Paper #12653) Political competitiveness – which many interpret as the degree of democracy – can be modeled as a monopolistic competition. All regimes are constrained by the threat of &#8220;entry,&#8221; and thereby seek some combination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=263&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN sanctions on North Korea and agency loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s outright unwillingness and South Korea&#8217;s hesitancy to fully enforce the new UN sanctions on North Korea raise a few questions over the effectiveness of the measure, beyond the fact that little has or can be expected to change following the DPRK&#8217;s recent nuclear test. Perhaps the most interesting question this raises is how the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=260&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another thought on the possibility of UN sanctions on North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the unintended &#8211; and likely unwanted &#8211; byproducts of the UN-endorsed sanctions on Iraq was the shoring up of domestic political support for Sadaam&#8217;s regime.  This is also a likely outcome in North Korea; the tiny state is at least as isolated as Iraq was (probably much more so), and the Kim Jung [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plouffie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=34621&amp;post=259&amp;subd=plouffie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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