After composing the note last night (just after midnight) I resumed my thought threads, ... finally getting to bed ~ 3:30 this morning. Anyway, one of the problems I encountered in thinking a bit more was how altruism fits into this. As you can read in my updated thought thread, I start a list of conjectures on ...
Gee, could it be that the genetic inheritance I've previously discussed and which may provide the primary tendency for the progressive or conservative ideal, is also related to altruism ... wherein a population requires both types (those have an altruistic tendency and the 'selfish' types) to prevent extinction? ...
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/01/why_obamas_beltway_apologists_are_letting_us_down/#more
This piece discusses the how the attacks on Drew Westen's article (how Obama isn't telling the right stories -- effectively how he's not giving the liberals a picture of what's really wrong ...
This piece discusses the how the attacks on Drew Westen's article (how Obama isn't telling the right stories -- effectively how he's not giving the liberals a picture of what's really wrong ...
See the 2008 (revision) paper (from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) for a comprehensive view of the subject... read especially the last segment "But it it Real?" One of the examples cited of "true" altruism is adoption... since it provides no gene pool probability of replication. I take a ...
Uh-Oh... things not looking good for 2012 at all. Read it and weep.
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-upset-win-ny-portends-challenge-obama-062401733.html
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-
I've spent some time filling in the question of beneficial selection mechanisms of institutions in conflict, which I'd previously left open since I needed to develop the issue.
Here it is (legibility to come later... this is a direct copy/paste from my notes in MS Notes):
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I was interested in seeing if I could begin to understand why economies that have been subject to a banking crises take so much longer to recover than in other forms and causes of large reductions in relative GDP. This interest was stimulated by a chart in an article today "Why there is no 'V' rebound this time". One ...
In his Bleeding Cure piece, he says at the end, speaking of policy maker's and those who have influence:
"It?s not going to be easy. But until that U-turn happens, the bleeding ? which is making our economy weaker now, and undermining its future at the same ...
The article by Antonio Fatas, which was supplied by Marc Thoma has a chart showing employment rate history for the EU15 , Germany, and the US since 1992.
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See this article on today's Economist's View site. Worth the read.
Basically, a 1994 academic paper (Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, 1994, ...
Compiled from data provided by article in NYT .... data in the article is by average unemployment rate over years of each Fed Chairmanship. ...
An article in Huffington post asks the same question I've been asking and pondering:
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This is just to give you a handle on where the current S&P 500;s price is relative to it's long term trend* value.
* Long Term Trend ==> least squared exponential fit for daily close from 1/03/1950 through 6/30/1994. This equates to an average annual compound rate of approx. 7.35%/year.
The ...
Krugman's recent blog post discusses the dilemma of using non-politcal economic experts technocratic policy making versus the political policy making which is the form we've always used.
"...call for delegating more policy to panels of nonpolitical experts..."...
Just another new piece of information regards effect of global warming. This ice shelf was ('til now) considered to be one of the most stable under global warming conditions. Generally speaking, the rate of warming effects keeps becoming greater than previously believed. No evidence that things are occurring ...