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    <title>Goerg : Lambert W random variables—a new family of generalized skewed distributions with applications to risk estimation</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-18T06:41:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>[1107.5728v2] The network of global corporate control</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-18T06:38:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728v2</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/the-rise-republican-nihilism">
    <title>The Rise of Republican Nihilism</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-21T21:23:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/print/article/politics/the-rise-republican-nihilism</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
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<dc:subject>toread via:cshalizi republican_party republicans jonathan_chait</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:4fdba53085bc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1927">
    <title>Language Log » The butterfly and the elephant</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-28T17:47:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1927</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which Mark Liberman does yeoman labor with the fictional character known as "David Brooks." (When the "Brooks" character "retires," the New York Times and "Brooks"'s old publishers will yell Surprise! and declare that it's all been a big joke.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>utter_stupidity david_brooks via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:1df96066e01d/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Print: Meet the Hazzards</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-27T04:38:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091012/prins_hayes/print</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tallying up all the financial support given to the banks. I need a drink.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bailout insanely_fucking_depressing via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
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    <title>Warren Ellis » T-Shirt Of The Week #005: HEALTH</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-23T17:12:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7999</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hilarious.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi universal_health_care health_insurance caring_for_the_less_fortunate funny</dc:subject>
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    <title>Thinking through Claude Lévi-Strauss « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-09T02:56:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/11/08/thinking-through-claude-levi-strauss/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well damn. It looks like I will have to add Lévi-Strauss to my to-read list (http://stevereads.com/toread).
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<dc:subject>via:cshalizi claude_lévi-strauss anthropology neuroanthropology structuralism neuroscience</dc:subject>
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    <title>“Do I have the right to refuse this search?” | Homeland Security Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-01T14:42:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/%E2%80%9Cdo-i-have-the-right-to-refuse-this-search%E2%80%9D/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An excellent takedown of everything that's wrong with airport security. Though I think I'd expand on one point at the very end: if another 9/11 happens, *maybe* the Dept. of Homeland Security itself will be blamed. More than likely what will happen instead is that a few particular employees will be fired very publicly, and the whole taped-together edifice will remain standing more or less as before. They'll still spend millions on ineffective equipment, because they can. If anything, the airport-security process will just grow more Draconian, again *because they can*, and because the appearance of sternness conveys the impression of security.
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<dc:subject>security travel tsa government via:cshalizi our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Abstract Factory: Coase and Pareto optimality illustrated</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-29T12:54:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abstractfactory.blogspot.com/2009/10/coase-and-pareto-optimality-illustrated.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the use and -- particularly -- abuse of the Coase Theorem. Excellent. Like all economic ideas, it seems to me that the Coase Theorem ought to be viewed as a constraint -- loose or tight, it's hard to say -- on the set of permissible assertions, but itself shouldn't be used to derive truthful assertions ... if that makes sense. I haven't said that clearly. I need coffee.
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<dc:subject>via:cshalizi pareto_optima coase_theorem</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:72547e6a7c45/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Geoengineering from black helicopters « The Reality-Based Community</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-20T15:48:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/uncategorized/geoengineering-from-black-helicopters/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I've only been following the Superfreakonomics thing with a corner of my brain; since I'm not at all interested in reading Freakonomics, I'm SUPERuninterested in reading its sequel.

But here's my question: it's *economists* who are recommending massively untested solutions to climate problems? This, from the discipline that reacts to any social-engineering effort with desperate cries of "unintended consequences"? Really? Same discipline?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi geoengineering superfreakonomics stephen_dubner steven_levitt freakonomics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:d078fd82c0db/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>g20-60 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-02T13:52:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/30686429@N07/3954695094/in/set-72157622330082619/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ha!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky power_laws heavy_tails via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:198074f49a68/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/08/the-davis-tremor.html">
    <title>Obsidian Wings: The Davis Tremor</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-19T15:09:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/08/the-davis-tremor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Where epistemology and the law meet in the execution of a possibly innocent man.
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<dc:subject>law antonin_scalia habeas_corpus supreme_court via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:8fc0e16086e9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:supreme_court"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/why-andrew-sullivan-is-right-about-megan-mcardle-but-not-in-the-way-he-thinks/">
    <title>Why Andrew Sullivan is right about Megan McArdle, but not in the way he thinks. « The Inverse Square Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-30T16:29:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/why-andrew-sullivan-is-right-about-megan-mcardle-but-not-in-the-way-he-thinks/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This may win the award for Most Evisceration Ever Contained In a Blog Post. Tears apart Megan McArdle and Andrew Sullivan for their ideological blinders and their innumeracy.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>megan_mcardle via:cshalizi evisceration andrew_sullivan thomas_levenson economics health_insurance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:77e622d1cc80/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:andrew_sullivan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:thomas_levenson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:health_insurance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/06/we-are-live-at-the-week-with-the-eclipse-of-the-chicago-school.html">
    <title>We Are Live at &quot;The Week&quot; with the Eclipse of the Chicago School</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-02T23:31:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/06/we-are-live-at-the-week-with-the-eclipse-of-the-chicago-school.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bravo, Brad DeLong. Wherein Brad spears the Posner book that I intend to start reading within the next few weeks.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>brad_delong richard_posner depression economics chicago_school evisceration via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:350f68968b77/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:brad_delong"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:richard_posner"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:depression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:chicago_school"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9009.html">
    <title>Cohen, G.A.: Why Not Socialism?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-05T00:15:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9009.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted via:cshalizi socialism g_a_cohen</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:e2ee579b690e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:books:noted"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:g_a_cohen"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8853.html">
    <title>Kricher, J.: The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-05T00:14:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8853.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history. He explains how and why this notion of a natural world in balance has endured for so long, and he shows why, in these times of extraordinary human influence on the planet's ecosystems, it is critical that we accept and understand that evolution is a fact of life, and that ecology is far more dynamic than we ever imagined."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted via:cshalizi ecology evolution models</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:d6d197655906/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:books:noted"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:models"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8901.html">
    <title>Gintis, H.: The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-12T23:19:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8901.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh my. Dr. Gintis, in this book, appears to be rubbing a bit of sunshine on my heart.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi game_theory coveted</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:55f45aa11551/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:game_theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:coveted"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/03/should-you-be-able-to-sell-what-you-do-not-own/">
    <title>FT.com | Willem Buiter's Maverecon | Should you be able to sell what you do not own?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-08T14:23:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/03/should-you-be-able-to-sell-what-you-do-not-own/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read. A quick skim suggests that we may want to apply the insurable-risk standard to things like CDSes -- i.e., you can't get a CDS to insure against default on a security you don't own. Obviously there would be problems with requiring this standard. Among such problems: the total volume of securities to which a CDS would apply is huge. If we were to regulate in this way, we'd need to provide a soft landing for a massive derivatives market.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi derivatives insurance insurable_risk toread willem_buiter</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:0be7516e60d2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:derivatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:insurance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:insurable_risk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:willem_buiter"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/03/ugly-loans.html">
    <title>Obsidian Wings: Ugly Loans</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-29T19:54:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/03/ugly-loans.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many mortgage loans were difficult to understand, even for quantitatively-minded folks -- some, even for the mortgage officer. Plus, many were deliberately obfuscated. So let's not be *too* quick to blame the victim here.

The Nudge fellows -- Thaler and Sunstein -- have an idea somewhere (maybe on their blog) about requiring a certain kind of chart that displays exactly how much money people will owe in each year. Seems like a good idea to me. Though it reminds me that the regulators will always be fighting an arms race against the fraudsters. Eternal vigilance, etc.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud via:cshalizi mortgages exploiting_the_unfortunate our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:f428903270bc/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:fraud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mortgages"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:exploiting_the_unfortunate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.html">
    <title>Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline - Photo Essays - TIME</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-19T13:28:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Could this be more depressing? The once-beautiful Detroit, formerly the economic engine of a nation, is a ghost.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi photograph modern_ruins detroit michigan</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:f0bb70c20a35/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:photograph"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:modern_ruins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:detroit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:michigan"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1598">
    <title>[0712.1598] The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-16T19:23:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1598</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most beneficial state to the society as a whole. Instead, strategies form Nash equilibria which are often socially suboptimal. Society, therefore, has to pay a price of anarchy for the lack of coordination among its members. Here we assess this price of anarchy by analyzing the travel times in road networks of several major cities. Our simulation shows that uncoordinated drivers possibly waste a considerable amount of their travel time. Counterintuitively,simply blocking certain streets can partially improve the traffic conditions. We analyze various complex networks and discuss the possibility of similar paradoxes in physics."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread via:ajkessel via:cshalizi complex_systems nash_equilibria pareto_optima</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:33bef563b421/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:ajkessel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:complex_systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:nash_equilibria"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:pareto_optima"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8537.html">
    <title>Frydman, R. and Goldberg, M.D.: Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-16T13:35:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8537.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Drawing attention to the inherent limits of economists' knowledge, they introduce a new approach to economic analysis: Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE). IKE rejects exact quantitative predictions of individual decisions and market outcomes in favor of mathematical models that generate only qualitative predictions of economic change." I'm putting this mentally in the same box as Sutton's models, of the kind laid out in "Marshall's Tendencies," "Sunk Costs and Market Structure," and "Technology and Market Structure." The story in those is that the modeler can't produce an exact model, but he can lay down axioms which *any* plausible model must satisfy. One such axiom might be that there exists "one smart agent," even if not all agents are smart. I wonder whether Frydman and Goldberg follow this line.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread economics via:cshalizi imperfect_knowledge</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:d0ecf4b4d089/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:imperfect_knowledge"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=8273">
    <title>The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance - Paul MacAvoy and Ira Millstein</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-14T02:28:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=8273</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread economics via:cshalizi corporate_governance institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:f9ee73364cb6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:corporate_governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:institutions"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144">
    <title>PHD Comics: Beware the Profzi Scheme</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-11T13:25:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I worry about my friends who are working toward PhDs, for exactly this reason.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics comics via:cshalizi academia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:709c7e9bf41e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:comics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:academia"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazine/08Foreclosure-t.html?pagewanted=all">
    <title>Magazine Preview - All Boarded Up - How Cleveland is Dealing With Mass Foreclosure - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-10T19:33:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/magazine/08Foreclosure-t.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hey, awesome! Now *Cleveland* is a postapocalyptic nightmare!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi mortgage_crisis cleveland urban_decay foreclosure</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:f93a1e89adcd/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:cleveland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:urban_decay"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:foreclosure"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010978.html">
    <title>Making Light: Why We Immunize</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-24T14:14:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010978.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is long. I am maybe 20% of the way through it. It is a nice introduction to vaccination, and why everyone should be vaccinating their kids.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi medicine vaccination vaccine</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:10a0aa8a2837/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:medicine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:vaccination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:vaccine"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.ny.frb.org/newsevents/speeches/2006/gei060914.html">
    <title>Hedge Funds and Derivatives and Their Implications for the Financial System - Federal Reserve Bank of New York</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-23T16:29:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ny.frb.org/newsevents/speeches/2006/gei060914.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread derivatives hedge_fund finance via:daniel_davies timothy_geithner</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:404db7fb8a5c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:derivatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:hedge_fund"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:daniel_davies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:timothy_geithner"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-having-black-name.html">
    <title>Daisy's Dead Air: On having a black name</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-19T15:26:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-having-black-name.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A terrific piece on the sort of life the white female author has lived because of her traditionally African-American name.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi race racism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:b097b10f73c7/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:racism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/on-the-origin-of-specious-arguments">
    <title>On the Origin of Specious Arguments » American Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-19T01:22:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/on-the-origin-of-specious-arguments</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good God. This is a parody of the worst of evolutionary psychology. I'm practically repeating myself there, because ev-psych seems to have produced not a lot of light but a great quantity of heat. I wish everyone planning to write a book about Evolutionary Psychology And Its Applications To Whatever would just stop, say to themselves "The connection between ev-psych and my field is probably indirect and tenuous," then have a nice beer and ask whether they should really be writing that book at all.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi evisceration utter_stupidity utter_bullshit evolutionary_psychology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:718540c97667/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:utter_bullshit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evolutionary_psychology"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/02/why-small-payments-wont-save-publishers/">
    <title>Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers « Clay Shirky</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-13T15:28:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/02/why-small-payments-wont-save-publishers/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oh, Clay Shirky, how I love thee. On why micropayments will always, always fail, and why the iTunes Music Store is actually evidence in favor of that claim.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi clay_shirky micropayments itunes</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:951c4d42712f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:clay_shirky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:micropayments"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:itunes"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780195300918?&amp;PID=27627">
    <title>Powell's Books - Income Distribution by Fred Campano</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-13T00:17:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780195300918?&amp;PID=27627</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread economics income_distribution wealth_distribution inequality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:37867a229d94/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:income_distribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:wealth_distribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:inequality"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/422902.html">
    <title>The Infamous Brad - Yes We Can Put Americans Back to Work. We Probably Won't, Though.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-11T14:25:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/422902.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A must-read. An absolutely terrific essay about what the New Deal actually did, whom it actually helped, and the money it actually saved. Then some thoughts on what he expects Obama to do. Hint: he doesn't expect Obama to even consider anything New Dealish. Per usual, the reactionaries are waiting in the wings -- or waiting at the very center of government -- to stop programs that help poor people.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi new_deal fdr franklin_delano_roosevelt depression</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:e1e7d44e37eb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:new_deal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:fdr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:franklin_delano_roosevelt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:depression"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MOREVE.html">
    <title>Harvard University Press: To Serve God and Wal-Mart : The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T16:38:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MOREVE.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You have to be intrigued by a book whose blurb reads as follows: "While industrial America was built by and for the urban North, rural Southerners comprised much of the labor, management, and consumers in the postwar service sector that raised the Sun Belt to national influence. These newcomers to the economic stage put down the plough to take up the bar-code scanner without ever passing through the assembly line. Industrial culture had been urban, modernist, sometimes radical, often Catholic and Jewish, and self-consciously international. Post-industrial culture, in contrast, spoke of Jesus with a drawl and of unions with a sneer, sang about Momma and the flag, and preached salvation in this world and the next."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread christianity wal-mart</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:885ba42ac839/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:christianity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:wal-mart"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MIRROA.html">
    <title>Harvard University Press: The Road from Mont Pèlerin : The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective by Philip Mirowski</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T16:38:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MIRROA.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seems like it could be interesting. On the origins of the Milton Friedman school, essentially. The presence of Karl Popper in there is curious in its own right.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread milton_friedman friedrich_von_hayek neoliberal_economics mont_pelerin karl_popper</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:2160d5301691/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:milton_friedman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:friedrich_von_hayek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:neoliberal_economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mont_pelerin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:karl_popper"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GRANAM.html">
    <title>Harvard University Press: Naming Infinity : A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-04T22:53:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GRANAM.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread via:cshalizi mathematics infinity mysticism cantor</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:c361f99f30ce/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mathematics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:infinity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mysticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:cantor"/>
</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 : Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-21T17:15:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/25456948/what_obama_must_do/print</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman's open letter to the president. Nothing that his blog's readers don't already know, but still good as a single, canonical version.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi barack_obama paul_krugman economic_crisis stimulus</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:45e7a43e5fcb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:barack_obama"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:paul_krugman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economic_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:stimulus"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/axel_leijonhufv.html">
    <title>Economist's View: Axel Leijonhufvud: Life Among the Econ</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-13T20:01:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/axel_leijonhufv.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi economics hilariousness parody</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:4f994a3a28b7/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:hilariousness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:parody"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200901/new-york-times">
    <title>The Atlantic Online | January/February 2009 | End Times | Michael Hirschorn</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-13T14:33:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200901/new-york-times</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article about the NYTimes's impending demise is exceptionally depressing. Among the most depressing parts is the impending death of the Boston Globe, which would leave Boston with only the Herald (think New York Port) as its daily paper. However, file this under "schadenfreude": "The Times has been on a steady march toward temporarily profitable lifestyle fluff. Escapes! Styles! T magazine(s)! For a time, this fluff helped underwrite the foreign bureaus, enterprise reporting, and endless five-part Pulitzer Prize aspirants. But it has gradually hollowed out journalism’s brand, by making the newspaper feel disposable. The fluff is more fun to read than the loss-leading reports about starvation in Sudan, but it isn’t the sort of thing you miss when it’s gone. Not many people would get misty-eyed over the closure of, say, “Thursday Styles,” fascinating as its weekly shopping deconstructions often are. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi via:aaronsw new_york_times business_of_newspapers</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:07bfd38b6967/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:aaronsw"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:new_york_times"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:business_of_newspapers"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300114591">
    <title>Truth or Economics - Markovits, Richard S - Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-03T22:34:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300114591</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread law_and_economics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:8a8be89cbf39/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:law_and_economics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/28/paper_wealth_and_the_economic/">
    <title>TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Paper Wealth and the Economic Crisis</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-02T03:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/28/paper_wealth_and_the_economic/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dean Baker slashes through a few tired arguments against deficit spending to get us out of the slump, and in the process makes at least a few points that I've never thought of but which are eminently sensible.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi subprime mortgage_crisis recession economic_crisis dean_baker recovery</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:66d5412b8990/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:subprime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:recession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economic_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:dean_baker"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:recovery"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson/single">
    <title>Katrina's Hidden Race War</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-26T03:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090105/thompson/single</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To read. A white enclave in New Orleans establishes a gang to kill black people. Lovely.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread race racism hurricane_katrina new_orleans</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:f4ac583c4d1a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:hurricane_katrina"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:new_orleans"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/12/auto-bailout-dead-end-cars-on-credit.html?welcome=true">
    <title>Why the Auto Bailout's a Dead End [MotherJones.com | washington_dispatch]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-24T22:36:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/12/auto-bailout-dead-end-cars-on-credit.html?welcome=true</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Could the economic news get any worse? Sure! How about that the auto-industry bailout won't work, because it's focusing on an industry that makes cars. "Back in 2003, Forbes magazine observed that GM was better described as a bank that happens to make cars than as an automaker."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi depression bailout economic_crisis automakers</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:21e4b6d31b21/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:depression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:bailout"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:economic_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:automakers"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://skyeome.net/wordpress/?p=195">
    <title>Skyeome.net » Blog Archive » Economic Flows and Vulnerability</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-24T21:56:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://skyeome.net/wordpress/?p=195</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A set of infographics, demonstrating flows of various things -- electricity and freight, primarily -- across the U.S., with an eye to identifying chokepoints. Very cool stuff.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi information_design networks visual_display_of_quantitative_information</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:3f33704e2a78/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:information_design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:visual_display_of_quantitative_information"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://abstrusegoose.com/7">
    <title>Abstruse Goose » Schrödinger’s Miscalculation - Part 2</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-24T20:28:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abstrusegoose.com/7</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Too damned funny.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi lolcats</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:b002bc501335/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:lolcats"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2516/the_lies_of_bernard_henri_leacutevy/">
    <title>The Lies of Bernard-Henri Lévy -- In These Times</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-23T02:31:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2516/the_lies_of_bernard_henri_leacutevy/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tasty, tasty evisceration, of a man whose idiocy I hadn't even been aware of. I've decided that by the year 2012, 96% of web content will be of the form "Isn't X an idiot?" Who am I to fight History? Hence this bookmark.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evisceration bernard-henri_lévy via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:8e593170b8f0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:bernard-henri_lévy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/stiglitz200811?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all">
    <title>Reversal of Fortune: Politics &amp; Power: vanityfair.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-22T16:45:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/11/stiglitz200811?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sensible Stiglitz: "remember that there are two sides to every mortgage—the lender and the borrower. Both enter freely into the deal. One might say that both are, accordingly, equally responsible. But one side—the lender—is supposed to be financially sophisticated. In contrast, the borrowers in the subprime market consist mainly of people who are financially unsophisticated. For many, their home is their only asset, and when they lose it, they lose their life savings. Remember, too, that we already give big homeowner subsidies, through the tax system, to affluent families. With tax deductions, the government is paying in some states almost half of all mortgage interest and real-estate taxes. But many lower-income people, whose deductions are meaningless because their tax bill is too small, get no help. It makes much more sense to convert these tax deductions into cashable tax credits, so that the fraction of housing costs borne by the government for the poor and the rich is the same."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>subprime subprime_mortgage mortgage_crisis joe_stiglitz via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:0036e3b080b6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:subprime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:subprime_mortgage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mortgage_crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:joe_stiglitz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28caro.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=all">
    <title>Op-Ed Contributor - Robert A. Caro - Op-Ed Contributor - Lyndon Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-30T15:40:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28caro.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Robert Caro is a national treasure, as are the four books he's written. "The Power Broker" should be on everyone's to-read list, as should be at least "Master of the Senate."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi robert_caro lyndon_johnson barack_obama</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:3d5c6c4d45b4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:robert_caro"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:lyndon_johnson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:barack_obama"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521780414">
    <title>Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800 - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T14:49:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521780414</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread. "A groundbreaking work based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors’ close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a rich and unsuspected vista of cultural and material history. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread via:cshalizi india persia travels historical</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:2ad54e5b40b0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:india"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:persia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:travels"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:historical"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11606&amp;mlid=670">
    <title>Weather by the Numbers - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-16T12:19:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=11606&amp;mlid=670</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi books meteorology toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:ce728cf2a9ec/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:meteorology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Charles-Tilly/dp/0521701538">
    <title>Amazon.com: Democracy: Charles Tilly: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Charles-Tilly/dp/0521701538</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['To replace the simple recipes of the past, Tilly proposes three master processes that shape democracy: the suppression of independent powers, the elimination categorical inequality, and the integration of trust networks into the polity.'
]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy toread via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:558fc2ef23a2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Structures-Large-Processes-Huge-Comparisons/dp/0871548801">
    <title>Amazon.com: Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons: Charles Tilly: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:14:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/Structures-Large-Processes-Huge-Comparisons/dp/0871548801</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:ace66952ad97/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/1984book/">
    <title>Empirical Processes: Theory and Applications [Pollard 84 book]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:14:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/1984book/</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Full scanned text of an out-of-print book by the author of "A User's Guide To Measure-Theoretic Probability." Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread stochastic_processes empirical_processes limit_theorems large_deviations statistics via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:9f55b73fcf37/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:stochastic_processes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:empirical_processes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:limit_theorems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:large_deviations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Usable-Knowledge-Science-Problem-Fastback/dp/0300023367">
    <title>Amazon.com: Usable Knowledge: Social Science and Social Problem Solving (Yale Fastback Series): Charles E. Lindblom: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:12:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/Usable-Knowledge-Science-Problem-Fastback/dp/0300023367</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:87f90d150546/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Mesopotamian-City-Marc-Mieroop/dp/0198152868">
    <title>Amazon.com: The Ancient Mesopotamian City: Marc Van De Mieroop: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:12:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Mesopotamian-City-Marc-Mieroop/dp/0198152868</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the early history of the above-named region. Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread mesopotamia via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:779f7334fda6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:mesopotamia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801492631">
    <title>Nations and Nationalism by Gellner, Ernest [Labyrinth Books]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:10:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801492631</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi nations nationalism ernest_gellner toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:d9259545e5a2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:nations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:nationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:ernest_gellner"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801486241">
    <title>Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India by Heller, Patrick [Labyrinth Books]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T02:09:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801486241</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Noted. Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread via:cshalizi labor india kerala</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:e0c2c0f019ca/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:india"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:kerala"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/31/142834/892/240/560121">
    <title>The Great White Hope [Daily Kos: State of the Nation]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-01T16:51:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/31/142834/892/240/560121</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be more happy that I just read this. It counts as the single authoritative denunciation of McCain, unmasking the fakir behind the Straight-Talk Express. If the media allow the sham to continue, they officially now have no excuse.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi john_mccain utter_phoniness evisceration racism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:aa39501f2ed8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:john_mccain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:utter_phoniness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:racism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/tom-geoghegan-m.html">
    <title>The G Spot: Tom Geoghegan, mensch and hero</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-01T15:56:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thegspot.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/tom-geoghegan-m.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nice explanation of why you should read "Which Side Are You On?" and Geoghegan's other books. Those other two go on the queue.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi thomas_geoghegan which_side_are_you_on labor_unions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:6508626a54f9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:thomas_geoghegan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:which_side_are_you_on"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:labor_unions"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1373.html">
    <title>Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-31T15:24:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1373.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi toread hierarchy trains westernization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:e937f51340fb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:hierarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:trains"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:westernization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780521796675">
    <title>Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology [Labyrinth Books]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-16T16:06:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780521796675</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi sociology toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:5d422ea75b4a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/21129038/full_metal_mccain/print">
    <title>Full Metal McCain : Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-30T12:35:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/21129038/full_metal_mccain/print</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Terrifying and sad and funny (as befits Taibbi): McCain's candidacy is just the reawakening of the same beast of hatred that has propelled every Republican campaign for 50 years and more.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi john_mccain barack_obama stupidity politics_of_rage politics_of_race politics_of_hatred</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:7cd8d71a90cf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:john_mccain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:barack_obama"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:politics_of_rage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:politics_of_race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:politics_of_hatred"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521064408">
    <title>Pinochet's Economists - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-30T11:55:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521064408</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looks great. Put it on the queue.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>toread augusto_pinochet chile milton_friedman via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:541fc02a1d2c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:toread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:augusto_pinochet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:chile"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:milton_friedman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/bacevich.php">
    <title>Fault Lines: Inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon [bostonreview.net]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T23:48:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/bacevich.php</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Doug Feith's and Ricardo Sanchez's books about the Iraq War -- eviscerated.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi evisceration neoconservatives utter_stupidity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:efc2b8b0b831/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:evisceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:neoconservatives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:utter_stupidity"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/06/17/oakland_airport_benetton_group/index.html?source=rss">
    <title>How my vendetta against the Benetton family was born - How the World Works - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T21:37:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/06/17/oakland_airport_benetton_group/index.html?source=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Global-scale corporations lie at the root of offensive child-directed consumer behavior in the Oakland Airport, goddamnit.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>global_massiveness benetton consumerism stop_selling_to_kids_goddamnit via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:d345e67fc4de/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:global_massiveness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:benetton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:consumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:stop_selling_to_kids_goddamnit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=992">
    <title>Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Hayek? The Obvious Truths and Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-04T15:58:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=992</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Excellent rebuttal to Hayek, whilst revisiting many of his writings.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi friedrich_von_hayek libertarianism schmibertarianism democracy socialism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:358f592e3e9a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:via:cshalizi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:friedrich_von_hayek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:schmibertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:socialism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121217626838633437.html?mod=hpp_us_leisure">
    <title>The Book Collection That Devoured My Life - WSJ.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-01T12:08:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121217626838633437.html?mod=hpp_us_leisure</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What's most charming about this piece to me is the number of little details of book-reading that ring true -- like his ability to remember where on a page a quote is, or the fact that you often CAN tell a book by its cover. Bravo, Luc Sante.
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<dc:subject>via:cshalizi books bibliomania bibliobibuli</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199702/the.cardamom.connection.htm">
    <title>Saudi Aramco World : The Cardamom Connection</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-21T14:50:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199702/the.cardamom.connection.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:cshalizi cardamon coffee exports saudi_arabia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:dd91947c7673/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/t:saudi_arabia"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2008/05/marx-and-the-ag.html">
    <title>normblog: Marx and the agency of change</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-18T16:05:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2008/05/marx-and-the-ag.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["achieving a world in which there is less systemic injustice, more freedom, ... rests in significant part on the kind of populations that developed capitalist economies increasingly put in place ... populations educated, increasingly aware, competent..."
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<dc:subject>marxism capitalism via:cshalizi</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:98599b294ed6/</dc:identifier>
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</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n09/mack01_.html">
    <title>LRB · Donald MacKenzie: End-of-the-World Trade</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-14T15:34:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n09/mack01_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi derivatives toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:slaniel/b:cfea65edd644/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd">
    <title>The Stupidity of Dignity</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-14T15:34:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd</link>
    <dc:creator>slaniel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Toread.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:cshalizi steven_pinker ethics bioethics conservatism</dc:subject>
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