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		<title>A Personal Comment on Mathematical Economics</title>
		<link>http://ryansafner.com/2010/09/03/a-personal-comment-on-mathematical-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started taking economics classes, particularly microeconomics courses, I was fascinated by the wide range of analytical tools and their applications.  Everything about social life and exchange, so it seemed to me, could be calculated, analyzed, and manipulated in a scientific and interesting way.  Even before I knew what economics was, one quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Pass a Law!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://ryansafner.com/2010/08/05/lets-pass-a-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One Part Two Audio: &#8220;Let&#8217;s Pass a Law!&#8221; Text: What has made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven. – Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (quoted in Hayek 2007, p.76) Legislation is the great panacea of our times.  Whenever most people encounter a difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?  J.M. Keynes Wasn&#8217;t.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From My Tumblr: Read this fantastic story about how a fifth grade boy, through a little math and clear thinking, was able to disprove John Maynard Keynes’ famous “multiplier effect” of government spending. http://civilsocietytrust.org/blog/2010/07/13/fifth-grader-discredits-keynesians/ And of course, for the ultimate disproof, in mathematical form, see Hazlitt’s fantastic book, the Failure of the New Economics, specifically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krugman&#8217;s Fear of Austerity (and Sincerity)</title>
		<link>http://ryansafner.com/2010/07/03/paul-krugmans-fear-of-austerity-and-sincerity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From My Tumblr: Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed in the New York Times blasts the “conventional wisdom” calling for Austerity measures (reducing national debts &#38; deficits in lieu of complete international bankruptcy) as he looks on “with amazement and horror.” &#8230; View Full Post]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Centeredness and Central-Planning in the Berry Market</title>
		<link>http://ryansafner.com/2010/06/27/self-centeredness-and-central-planning-in-the-berry-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From My Tumblr: Call this a rant, but it comes with valuable socio-economic lessons. I’ve been taking some hours at a U-Pick berry farm in my hometown, the same one where I worked all throughout High School.  Essentially I sit at the stand, direct customers where they can pick blue/strawberries, and then ring them up [...]]]></description>
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