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    <title>The Epstein Files and Russiagate are the Same Thing</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-12T17:04:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-epstein-files-and-russiagate</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is depressingly persuasive.  For more on something Gutinsky mentions in passing, [https://archive.is/2026.02.06-235924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/epsteins-network-included-russian-tech-investors-with-past-kremlin-ties/]]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions corruption the_continuing_crises have_read via:?</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T15:25:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- New Mexico will always have a special place in my heart, but there are times I am very glad not to have spent my life thre.]]></description>
<dc:subject>police corruption new_mexico via:? have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>A Social Theory of Corruption — Sudhir Chella Rajan | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-04T21:52:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and extortion, placing the onus on individuals, typically bureaucrats. Sudhir Chella Rajan argues that this understanding ignores the true depths of corruption, which is properly seen as a foundation of social structures. Not just bribes but also caste, gender relations, and the reproduction of class are forms of corruption.
"Using South Asia as a case study, Rajan argues that syndromes of corruption can be identified by paying attention to social orders and the elites they support. From the breakup of the Harappan civilization in the second millennium BCE to the anticolonial movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, elites and their descendants made off with substantial material and symbolic gains for hundreds of years before their schemes unraveled.
"Rajan makes clear that this grander form of corruption is not limited to India or the annals of global history. Societal corruption is endemic, as tax cheats and complicit bankers squirrel away public money in offshore accounts, corporate titans buy political influence, and the rich ensure that their children live lavishly no matter how little they contribute. These elites use their privileged access to power to fix the rules of the game—legal structures and social norms—benefiting themselves, even while most ordinary people remain faithful to the rubrics of everyday life."]]></description>
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    <title>How U.S. Firms Helped Africa’s Richest Woman Exploit Her Country’s Wealth</title>
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    <title>Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-16T17:57:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Billionaires and Stealth Politics, Page, Seawright, Lacombe</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-08T21:19:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo29143391</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 2016, when millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump, many believed his claims that personal wealth would free him from wealthy donors and allow him to “drain the swamp.” But then Trump appointed several billionaires and multimillionaires to high-level positions and pursued billionaire-friendly policies, such as cutting corporate income taxes. Why the change from his fiery campaign rhetoric and promises to the working class? This should not be surprising, argue Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe: As the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us has widened, the few who hold one billion dollars or more in net worth have begun to play a more and more active part in politics—with serious consequences for democracy in the United States.
"Page, Seawright, and Lacombe argue that while political contributions offer a window onto billionaires’ influence, especially on economic policy, they do not present a full picture of policy preferences and political actions. That is because on some of the most important issues, including taxation, immigration, and Social Security, billionaires have chosen to engage in “stealth politics.” They try hard to influence public policy, making large contributions to political parties and policy-focused causes, leading policy-advocacy organizations, holding political fundraisers, and bundling others’ contributions—all while rarely talking about public policy to the media. This means that their influence is not only unequal but also largely unaccountable to and unchallengeable by the American people. Stealth politics makes it difficult for ordinary citizens to know what billionaires are doing or mobilize against it. The book closes with remedies citizens can pursue if they wish to make wealthy Americans more politically accountable, such as public financing of political campaigns and easier voting procedures, and notes the broader types of reforms, such as a more progressive income tax system, that would be needed to increase political equality and reinvigorate majoritarian democracy in the United States."
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    <title>Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-12T02:03:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w25329</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the financial ties between some firms and non-profits - ties that are legal and tax-exempt, but difficult to trace. We identify these ties using IRS forms submitted by the charitable arms of large U.S. corporations, which list all grants awarded to non-pro fits. We document three patterns in a comprehensive sample of public commentary made by firms and non-profits within U.S. federal rulemaking between 2003 and 2015. First, we show that, shortly after a firm donates to a non-profit, the grantee is more likely to comment on rules for which the firm has also provided a comment. Second, when a firm comments on a rule, the comments by non-profits that recently received grants from the firm's foundation are systematically closer in content similarity to the firm's own comments than to those submitted by other non-profits commenting on that rule. This content similarity does not result from similarly-worded comments that express divergent sentiment. Third, when a firm comments on a new rule, the discussion of the final rule is more similar to the firm's comments when the firm's recent grantees also comment on that rule. These patterns, taken together, suggest that corporations strategically deploy charitable grants to induce non-pro fit grantees to make comments that favor their benefactors, and that this translates into regulatory discussion that is closer to the firm's own comments."]]></description>
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    <title>How Tony Podesta, a Washington Power Broker, Lost It All - WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-18T20:38:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tony-podesta-a-washington-power-broker-lost-it-all-1524065781</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics corruption our_decrepit_institutions congress class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america have_read art</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4c4204947870/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:congress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:art"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161410">
    <title>Markets and Manipulation: Time for a Paradigm Shift?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-13T18:40:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161410</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities that impact their decision making and choice in the market place. The flip side of this is that human beings are susceptible to being manipulated by unscrupulous agents single-minded about marketing their services and wares. This paper reviews George Akerlof and Robert Shiller's Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, alongside other writings in the field, and discusses how this research agenda can be taken forward. The paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for controlling corruption."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics decision-making market_failures_in_everything fraud corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d688fede53e8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:decision-making"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_failures_in_everything"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2016/12/9/13799904/trump-corruption-conflict-of-interest">
    <title>All of Donald Trump’s known conflicts of interest in one place - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-13T14:34:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2016/12/9/13799904/trump-corruption-conflict-of-interest</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics corruption trump.donald foreign_policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:979d623fd28f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:trump.donald"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity">
    <title>What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-05T01:51:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>china craft corruption moral_psychology via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:71a0ddb8a897/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:craft"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://promarket.org/the-real-lesson-from-brexit/">
    <title>The Real Lesson From Brexit -</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-30T17:51:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://promarket.org/the-real-lesson-from-brexit/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Christopher Hayes, Christopher Hayes, to the red courtesy phone..]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read our_decrepit_institutions elites inequality re:democratic_cognition class_struggles_in_america zingales.luigi via:henry_farrell corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:90105f37fe6f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:elites"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:democratic_cognition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:zingales.luigi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162">
    <title>The Market for Data: The Changing Role of Social Sciences in Shaping the Law by Elizabeth Warren :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-30T17:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A vigorous market for scholarly data exists, as journalists, lobbyists and legislators search for facts to pepper their public statements and better influence public opinion. In the bankruptcy area, data providers, such as the Credit Research Center located at Georgetown University, have taken money from the consumer credit industry to produce studies supporting the credit industry's political positions. In the case of the CRC, the studies bear the University logo, but the Center describes the data as "proprietary," belonging exclusively to the industry funders who decide what data are released and what data are held private. This paper explores the implications of such funding arrangements on independent research and ultimately on the public debates."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness corruption academia think_tanks our_decrepit_institutions social_science_methodology social_life_of_the_mind via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d03a38c4da34/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_science_methodology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/">
    <title>This industry helps Chinese cheat their way into &amp; through US colleges</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-31T14:19:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-cheating-iowa/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not sure if I should tag this one "our decrepit institutions" or not...]]></description>
<dc:subject>cheating academia education networked_life market_failures_in_everything corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fff4f5c5ed64/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cheating"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:academia"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_failures_in_everything"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2016/05/neoliberalism.html">
    <title>mainly macro: Neoliberalism</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-02T22:54:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2016/05/neoliberalism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well-said.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics neoliberalism ideology corruption market_failures_in_everything privatization via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:832d0f115c9f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ideology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_failures_in_everything"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-04-22/panama-papers-and-thomas-piketty">
    <title>The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty | Foreign Affairs</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-25T16:45:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-04-22/panama-papers-and-thomas-piketty</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>inequality corruption panama_papers piketty.thomas farrell.henry have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d88924991d6d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:inequality"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:panama_papers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:piketty.thomas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:farrell.henry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/04/06/why-are-there-so-many-anonymous-corporations-in-delaware/">
    <title>Why are there so many anonymous corporations in Delaware? - Sunlight Foundation Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-10T15:57:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/04/06/why-are-there-so-many-anonymous-corporations-in-delaware/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics corporations corruption our_decrepit_institutions watson.libby have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3eb67c0eccc0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corporations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:watson.libby"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/">
    <title>America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker - The Huffington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-14T20:05:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The whole series is incredible, and too full of perfectly everyday abuses for any excerpt to do it justice.  But I can't help flagging a point of parochial interest, from chapter 4, where J&J is hiring a company to seed the medical literature with propaganda:

"“No other medical education company has the tremendous access to top opinion leaders that Excerpta Medica does … ” Excerpta promised. “Our parent company, Reed Elsevier, is the largest supplier of medical information in the world, publishing over 700 medical journals in almost every conceivable therapeutic area. Each journal has an editorial board composed of renown specialists throughout the world who are available to us as consultants, advisory board members, speakers, and in other capacities. We provide this significant access to all of our clients.” (The Excerpta connection to the giant Europe-based publisher would be severed in 2010, when it was sold to a unit of the giant advertising agency Omnicom.)"

(I also want to acknowledge that, fair's fair, this incredible piece of well-documented journalism is coming from Huffington Post, so my last tag is a genuine question for once.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read corruption medicine our_decrepit_institutions deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process to:blog psychotherapy why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0ad9262c5c5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:medicine"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20159822">
    <title>The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, Zucman, Fagan, Piketty</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-03T00:59:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo20159822</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden in tax havens—in countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands—this wealth cannot be fully accounted for and taxed fairly. No one, from economists to bankers to politicians, has been able to quantify exactly how much of the world’s assets are currently hidden—until now. Gabriel Zucman is the first economist to offer reliable insight into the actual extent of the world’s money held in tax havens. And it’s staggering."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted taxes corruption economics political_economy inequality globalization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d1a907368080/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:taxes"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:inequality"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://theweek.com/articles/578733/inside-tax-havens-that-are-helping-1-percent-steal-trillions-dollars">
    <title>Inside the tax havens that are helping the 1 percent steal trillions of dollars</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-26T23:48:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theweek.com/articles/578733/inside-tax-havens-that-are-helping-1-percent-steal-trillions-dollars</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[See also Henry's interview w/ Zucman,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/09/21/american-businesses-gave-themselves-a-6-tax-cut-over-the-last-15-years-heres-how-they-did-it/]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics corruption our_decrepit_institutions taxes inequality have_read to:blog via:henry_farrell political_economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5b467d78c624/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/small-pool-of-rich-donors-dominates-election-giving.html?_r=0">
    <title>Small Pool of Rich Donors Dominates Election Giving - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-20T20:26:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/small-pool-of-rich-donors-dominates-election-giving.html?_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The quotes at the very end are quite perfect in their idiocy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read inequality class_struggles_in_america us_politics campaign_finance corruption our_decrepit_institutions to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7fd6a3d302f1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/bull-market/say-it-ain-t-so-ben-72d55d00cef7">
    <title>Say It Ain’t So, Ben — Bull Market — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-30T02:29:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/bull-market/say-it-ain-t-so-ben-72d55d00cef7</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But it’s sad that we live in a world where even Ben Bernanke — once perhaps the second-most powerful man in the world — feels like the only thing worthy of their time is just another hedge fund."]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions economics corruption finance</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aff12d04c0e5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-big-payoff-freeh-and-easy-after.html">
    <title>Hullabaloo: Free and Easy After Public Service</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-04T04:07:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-big-payoff-freeh-and-easy-after.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cf. _The Great McGinty_: "If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition. Jellyfish."]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption our_decrepit_institutions us_politics military_industrial_complex</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4b1742d467d0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511068">
    <title>Information Networks: Evidence from Illegal Insider Trading Tips by Kenneth R. Ahern :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-27T23:10:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511068</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The description given by A. Z. Jacobs cannot be bettered: "Insider trading happening adorably between childhood BFFs, not professional contacts." (https://twitter.com/az_jacobs/status/525003389713653761)

--- After reading through: a truly heroic piece of data acquisition.  Not wild about things like OLS and ordinal logistic regression (would it hurt you to use a spline once in a while?), but probably wouldn't affect the over-all trend, which is all this is really good for.  One thought not explored here: might the tendency for those further down a tip chain to make more money be part of how these particular networks got caught?  (He's sensitive on the, to put it delicately, sample-selection biases, but doesn't go into whether that might be one of them.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_networks finance corruption economics network_data_analysis have_read blogged to_teach:baby-nets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:70933e99ccc7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2014_10_19.html#014145">
    <title>Unfogged: All Hail Duke</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-25T02:22:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2014_10_19.html#014145</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Boxill is a senior lecturer in the philosophy department and was chair of the faculty from 2011 to earlier this year. She directs the university's Parr Center for Ethics."

--- Remarks:
1. Well, many of us study what we don't understand.
2. Eliminate organized college sports.
3. Nobody could get away with that in a novel.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:academic funny:pointed funny:tasteless academia our_decrepit_institutions corruption ethics moral_philosophy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6453ef7c5972/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/">
    <title>Afghanistan: ‘A Shocking Indictment’ by Rory Stewart | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-21T16:40:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted book_reviews afghanistan the_continuing_crises state-building corruption war</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a083f8b709b8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:state-building"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.propublica.org/article/disgraced-senior-cia-official-heads-to-prison-still-claiming-hes-a-patriot">
    <title>Disgraced Senior CIA Official Heads to Prison Still Claiming He’s a Patriot - ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-30T14:31:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.propublica.org/article/disgraced-senior-cia-official-heads-to-prison-still-claiming-hes-a-patriot</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now there are names I haven't heard for a long time.  Ah, the memories...]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption military_industrial_complex the_continuing_crises to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2109b888cba4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/">
    <title>The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates, Part 1 | Chicago magazine | May 2014</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-25T13:57:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The last tag is of course the least of the issues here.
(And tempting as it is to say "what gets measured gets massaged", that seems like not just a counsel of despair, but an _unfounded_ counsel of despair.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>violence chicago crime corruption juking_the_stats evidence_based social_measurement management social_science_methodology to_teach have_read bad_data_analysis to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f0b73fcbf501/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:crime"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sss.ias.edu/files/pdfs/Rodrik/Commentary/Plot-Against-the-Generals.pdf">
    <title>The Plot Against the Generals</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-10T19:14:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sss.ias.edu/files/pdfs/Rodrik/Commentary/Plot-Against-the-Generals.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read turkey corruption rodrik.dani via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6842db14194b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rodrik.dani"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.104.7.2185">
    <title>AER (104,7) p. 2185 - Mafia and Public Spending: Evidence on the Fiscal Multiplier from a Quasi-experiment</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-28T13:25:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.104.7.2185</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A law issued to combat political corruption and Mafia infiltration of city councils in Italy has resulted in episodes of large, unanticipated, temporary contractions in local public spending. Using these episodes as instruments, we estimate the output multiplier of spending cuts at provincial level—controlling for national monetary and fiscal policy, and holding the tax burden of local residents constant—to be 1.5. Assuming that lagged spending is exogenous to current output brings the estimate of the overall multiplier up to 1.9. These results suggest that local spending adjustment may be quite consequential for local activity."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics macroeconomics italy crime corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de66473f14fa/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:macroeconomics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://sup.org/book.cgi?id=18534&amp;promo=S14ASIA">
    <title>Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-29T17:55:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sup.org/book.cgi?id=18534&amp;promo=S14ASIA</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change.
"While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal local groups actually operate, paying special attention to the role of patronage networks in political decision-making, political competition, and official corruption. While patronage networks are often seen as a parasite on the formal institutions of state, Hillman shows that patronage politics actually help China's political system function. In a system characterized by fragmented authority, personal power relations, and bureaucratic indiscipline, patronage networks play a critical role in facilitating policy coordination and bureaucratic bargaining. They also help to regulate political competition within the state, which reduces the potential for open conflict. Understanding patronage networks is essential for understanding the resilience of the Chinese state through decades of change.
"Power and Patronage is filled with rich and fascinating accounts of the machinations of patronage networks and their role in the ruthless and sometimes violent competition for political power."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted social_networks china:prc corruption institutions political_science patron-client_networks bureaucracy china in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3fe8a42373ed/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster">
    <title>Perry Anderson · The Italian Disaster · LRB 22 May 2014</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-25T14:39:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n10/perry-anderson/the-italian-disaster</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Full of Anderson's signature high-mandarin style and despair, but, really, the parade of corruption is pretty gross.]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy corruption italy politics our_decrepit_institutions have_read financial_crisis_of_2007-- to:blog EU</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8a5f04c3102f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://mathbabe.org/2013/07/01/payroll-cards-it-costs-too-much-to-get-my-money-ows/">
    <title>Payroll cards: “It costs too much to get my money” (#OWS) | mathbabe</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-11T20:10:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mathbabe.org/2013/07/01/payroll-cards-it-costs-too-much-to-get-my-money-ows/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I suppose this is better than paying in scrip redeemable only at the company store, but not all that much.]]></description>
<dc:subject>finance corruption whats_gone_wrong_with_america class_struggles_in_america economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5e1820759810/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-hand-to-mouth-as-difficult-as.html">
    <title>Making hand-to-mouth as difficult as possible</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T12:28:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2013/06/making-hand-to-mouth-as-difficult-as.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dept. of "running government more like a business"... (People shouldn't write bad checks, obviously.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption law whats_gone_wrong_with_america market_failures_in_everything privatization class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:6578f79d709b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing">
    <title>How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing - ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-27T16:34:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>taxes public_policy lobbying intuit corruption us_politics vast_right-wing_conspiracy via:whimsley</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:de13bb2344ec/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:public_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lobbying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:intuit"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:whimsley"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/12/glenn-hubbards-countrywide-deposition.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong : Glenn Hubbard's Countrywide Deposition</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-31T04:17:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/12/glenn-hubbards-countrywide-deposition.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Q. I'd like to stick with the statement you just made about materiality. In paragraph 53 of your initial report, when you're reporting the results of the regression analysis for your sample of comparable pools, you say that the differences between actual performance and expected performance, where the expected performance is driven by your regression analysis using the comparable pools, the differences are not statistically significant for 14 out of the 15 securitizations, right?
"A. On the securitization level, yes, in the initial report.
"Q. Yes. And you say on average, however, if you put all 15 together, the difference is statistically significant?
"A. That's correct."

--- Ladies and gentlemen, one of the most successful economists in America.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_teach:undergrad-ADA hypothesis_testing corruption why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4507bb887ebd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/">
    <title>“If our product is harmful . . . we’ll stop making it.” « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-02T16:14:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness smoking statistics causal_inference corruption our_decrepit_institutions rubin.donald_b.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5d775dbe7172/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:smoking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:statistics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/08/niall-ferguson-and-the-rage-against.html">
    <title>Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the Thought-Leader Machine - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T19:50:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/08/niall-ferguson-and-the-rage-against.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions corruption natural_history_of_truthiness ideology ferguson.niall intellectuals</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fdb228be55a3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ferguson.niall"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620">
    <title>The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia | Politics News | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T14:45:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>corruption finance auctions market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8d688ab7802c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:auctions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:market_failures_in_everything"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/02/cooperation-and-corruption/">
    <title>Cooperation and Corruption — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-02T15:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/02/cooperation-and-corruption/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Long after the last pothole has been seen, clicked, and fixed, I think the legacy of the Open Data movement is going to be assessed on its ability to limit powerful actors. I’m afraid that that legacy will be minimal, in part because I’m afraid the transparency people have brought a knife to a gun fight. It’s possible for private actors to make common cause with elected politicians and career civil servants around snow removal, but useful transparency will always require harder tactics, tactics especially including ways of using open data to tell stories that enrage the public."]]></description>
<dc:subject>open_data shirky.clay corruption journalism networked_life democracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:83d781b2f49e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/article/168265/why-elites-fail">
    <title>Why Elites Fail | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-10T20:08:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/article/168265/why-elites-fail</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>meritocracy our_decrepit_institutions hayes.chris elites inequality political_economy us_politics whats_gone_wrong_with_america corruption moral_depravity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f44f78359946/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:elites"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_economy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_depravity"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=philanthropy_is_my_copilot">
    <title>Philanthropy is My Co-Pilot | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-04T14:10:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=philanthropy_is_my_copilot</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>foundations ngos public_policy corruption democracy malefactors_of_great_wealth</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:97212e2c21be/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ngos"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:public_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:malefactors_of_great_wealth"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/05/01/blaming-rubin/">
    <title>Blaming Rubin | Analysis &amp; Opinion |</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-02T23:47:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/05/01/blaming-rubin/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[J'accuse!  "He allowed the illegal creation of Citigroup with a nod and a wink, knowing that Gramm-Leach-Bliley was just around the corner and would make Citigroup legal in retrospect.  He then collected his just rewards in the form of $126 million in pay from Citi, for a job which even Weisberg admits involved no managerial responsibility."  Plus, all the stuff about derivative regulation.  May I add that if I am ever appointed treasury secretary, I would be willing to engage in comparable acts for a mere $20 million (in 2010 dollars)?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>salmon.felix us_politics the_continuing_crises regulation financial_markets corruption credit_derivatives rubin.robert</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4f3f6f2a0eaf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:credit_derivatives"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bigthink.com/ideas/19423">
    <title>Booze is an &quot;Office Supply&quot; at the RNC | Lindsay Beyerstein | Big Think</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-02T15:54:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigthink.com/ideas/19423</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was unfortunately drinking coffee when I read this line: "hard-driving captains of industry are not putting down cash on some vague promise of overturning Roe. Apparently, rich Republicans won't cough up the big bucks until they actually see women in bondage."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious us_politics running_dogs_of_reaction corruption beyerstein.lindsay</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ee9a359a7d8e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971133_1971110_1971117,00.html">
    <title>The Twilight of the Elites - 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years - TIME</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-24T01:10:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971133_1971110_1971117,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions whats_gone_wrong_with_america elites corruption hayes.chris</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:46a54b2cc71e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:elites"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hayes.chris"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/renters-insurance-insuring-rents/">
    <title>Renter’s Insurance, Insuring Rents « Rortybomb</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-05T21:42:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/renters-insurance-insuring-rents/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_economy corruption us_politics financial_markets market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7d3d3377bef7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/usefultransparency">
    <title>When Is Transparency Useful? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-11T16:52:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/usefultransparency</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>politics corruption good_causes transparency swartz.aaron progressive_forces</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5f63ca651936/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:swartz.aaron"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780465091065">
    <title>Shadow Elite: How the Worlds New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market by Janine Wedel</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-13T21:25:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780465091065</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I especially look forward to reading the bits about Larry Summers.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted corruption social_networks political_economy whats_gone_wrong_with_america via:? anthropology deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process privatization natural_history_of_truthiness books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0a43b4eaca6f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blabes.html">
    <title>Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, University of Texas Press</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-26T13:57:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/blabes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted finance banking fraud corruption savings_and_loan_disaster</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bdb9395f5425/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:savings_and_loan_disaster"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html">
    <title>It's time to embrace American royalty - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-31T18:05:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>corruption funny:pointed why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps vast_right-wing_conspiracy whats_gone_wrong_with_america nepotism meritocracy us_politics greenwald.glenn</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4dc0e30aceea/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nepotism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:meritocracy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:greenwald.glenn"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/business/06surgeon.html?em">
    <title>Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor’s Colleagues - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-07T17:03:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/business/06surgeon.html?em</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This really looks very bad.  (And: a journal refusing to share referee reports with someone listed on the MS. as an author? WTF?)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia fraud corruption medicine why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system us-iraq_war</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b38f2dee055f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:medicine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us-iraq_war"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/04/astroturf-journals/">
    <title>Astroturf journals — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-04T12:28:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/05/04/astroturf-journals/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Merck paid Elsevier to gin up a mock peer reviewed journal pushing Merck's drugs.  I have already given up on providing free labor to Elsevier in the form of refereeing, but now I am contemplating deliberately avoiding citing papers which appear in their journals.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption natural_history_of_truthiness drugs deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process elsevier merck peer_review why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:47635c8da14d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:drugs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:elsevier"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:merck"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:peer_review"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21274">
    <title>The Last Temptation of Risk</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-30T02:42:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21274</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Barry Eichengreen on what is (and what is not) wrong with economics.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics our_decrepit_institutions financial_crisis_of_2007-- corruption eichengreen.barry</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b71522b2e2a8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:eichengreen.barry"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/the_cot_of_driving_while_black_in_a_small_town_in_texas/">
    <title>The Cost of Driving While Black in a Small Town in Texas</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-11T20:47:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/the_cot_of_driving_while_black_in_a_small_town_in_texas/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[... is being shaken down by the police.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption extortion racism the_american_dilemma police our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d598d2b98efd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:extortion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_american_dilemma"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2534564">
    <title>Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit (Akerlof and Romer, 1993)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-11T16:16:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/pss/2534564</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Published version, via JSTOR.  (The discussants seem clueless.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud corporate_governance financial_markets financial_speculation institutions mechanism_design moral_hazard corruption economics akerlof.george romer.paul have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c2d5b1fb298a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corporate_governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mechanism_design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_hazard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:akerlof.george"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:romer.paul"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n04/ande01_.html">
    <title>LRB · Perry Anderson: An Entire Order Converted into What It Was Intended to End</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-28T21:53:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n04/ande01_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Italian politics since the mid 1990s, especially Berlusconi.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>italy corruption</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:019439b8e6c6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/on_so_called_irresponsible_borrowers.php">
    <title>Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-24T19:59:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/02/on_so_called_irresponsible_borrowers.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>mortgage_crisis our_decrepit_institutions corruption moral_responsibility yglesias.matthew</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f3425b2597c2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_responsibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:yglesias.matthew"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/business/worldbusiness/19ubs.html">
    <title>The Swiss Bank UBS Is Set to Open Its Secret Files - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-19T16:55:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/business/worldbusiness/19ubs.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The end of Swiss banking as we knew it.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption taxes tax_evasion banking ubs via:klk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d74ddaba25e5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:taxes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:tax_evasion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ubs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:klk"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html">
    <title>Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-13T14:50:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While substantially disgusted, I do have to admire the elegance of the racket: first as judges you shut down the public juvie detention as unsafe, then you sentence every kid possible to the private jail which just so happens to have opened up, and which just so happens to be paying you millions.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption crime privatization prisons pennsylvania our_decrepit_institutions horrifying</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9da05ed18212/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:crime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:prisons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:pennsylvania"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/how_theresa_hatt_caused_the_financial_crisis.php">
    <title>TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | How Theresa Hatt Caused The Financial Crisis</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-07T12:59:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/how_theresa_hatt_caused_the_financial_crisis.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud corruption banking our_decrepit_institutions bank_of_america credit_cards via:making_light</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9672cd2c7d26/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:banking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bank_of_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:credit_cards"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:making_light"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.triduanum.com/memo.pdf">
    <title>The confession of Christopher J. Warren</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T03:52:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.triduanum.com/memo.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The confession of his own fraud is interesting.  The core proposal (underneath the failure to write clearly) is that selectively prosecuting frauds after they happen is less effective than a regulatory compliance regime that makes fraud hard to commit in the first place.  This is fair enough, but (as Tanta used to say), there is no way to actually verify the claims in mortgage applications & c. _quickly_.  Requiring it would lead to massive changes in an industry which has rebuilt itself around speedy securitization.  This may or may not be a bad thing.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>mortgage_crisis fraud corruption utter_stupidity regulation via:shivak</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:af9c82314382/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:regulation"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/">
    <title>New York News - What Cooked the World's Economy? - page 1 - Village Voice</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-03T23:35:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-28/news/what-cooked-the-world-s-economy/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't know that the magnitude of derivatives matters so much as he makes out, if only because so many of them have bets going the other way that the net effect is much smaller.  (But uncertainty about what that net position is, on the other hand...)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>mortgage_crisis fraud corruption credit_derivatives</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:59627b997c3a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25456948/what_obama_must_do/print">
    <title>What Obama Must Do : Krugman</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-21T13:45:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25456948/what_obama_must_do/print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Krugman's long-form take on what Obama should do, domestically, in year 1.  Where do I sign up to help pressure Obama to do all this?

(And, in a "why oh why can't have a better press" moment, why does our leading public intellectual have to publish this in Rolling Stone, of all places?)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics mortgage_crisis economic_policy political_advice political_economy macroeconomics federal_reserve unions progressive_forces krugman.paul obama.barack corruption our_national_shame the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:774b2874b779/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economic_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_advice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:political_economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:macroeconomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:federal_reserve"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:progressive_forces"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:krugman.paul"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:obama.barack"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_national_shame"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=320627">
    <title>Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs: The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-12T02:24:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=320627</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economic_policy privatization regulation imperfect_competition corruption running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:68d355ef12c9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economic_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:imperfect_competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/world/20081213_RECONSTRUCTION_DOC/original.pdf">
    <title>Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-20T00:53:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/world/20081213_RECONSTRUCTION_DOC/original.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Draft inspector general's report on the Iraqi reconstruction project.  I've not finished it yet, but: Unbefuckinglievable.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us-iraq_war utter_stupidity funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming via:rjwaldmann running_dogs_of_reaction corruption privatization the_continuing_crises horrifying</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:93e1d43c0541/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us-iraq_war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:rjwaldmann"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.cjr.org/essay/boiler_room.php?page=all">
    <title>CJR: Boiler Room</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-04T00:33:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cjr.org/essay/boiler_room.php?page=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>fraud corruption mortgage_crisis why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps via:ezra_klein starkman.dean</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b7192d5e208c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:ezra_klein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:starkman.dean"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://whattoeatbook.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/">
    <title>What to Eat » Industry funding has no effect on research quality!</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T15:49:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whattoeatbook.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We now have data claiming that there is no difference in the quality of controlled clinical weight loss trials whether they are funded by industry or independently. The senior author on this comparative study is the very same person who was relieved of his responsibilities as head of a national obesity society because he wrote a letter opposing calorie labeling without disclosing that he was paid to do it".
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    <title>Conservatives and Their Carnival of Fraud - Thomas Frank</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T20:46:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121435075603401563.html?mod=todays_columnists</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a wonder the WSJ editorial page doesn't explode from sheer cognitive dissonance.
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    <title>Is Undercover Over? Disguise seen as deceit by timid journalists</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-13T16:55:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3391</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aaron explains one reason why we don't, in fact, have a better press corps: the threat of being sued for things like "breach of loyalty" [!]
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