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Time management tips - Marginal REVOLUTION
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On November 7, 2004 at 7:05 am. Offers some time management tips over at CrookedTimber.org. I’ll second his call for a daily word quota, but express horror at his notion that you should ever devote a morning to 8-10 jobs that ought to take 5 minutes each. Here are my suggestions:. 1 There is always time to do more, most people, even the productive, have a day that is at least forty percent slack. 3 Some tasks (drawing up outlines? 5 Blogging builds up good work habits; the deadline is always now. Create ...
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Was Jared Diamond right about the collapse of Easter Island? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Was Jared Diamond right about the collapse of Easter Island? On July 30, 2011 at 5:10 pm. The excellent Charles C. Mann reviews. A new book on the history of Easter Island, The Statues That Walked. Today, the researchers discovered, abandoned manavai occupy about 6.4 square miles, a tenth of the island’s total surface. I just bought the Easter Island book, Mann’s new book, which I devoured immediately, is out soon. July 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm. Diamond’s Collapse was an intellectual embarrassment and p...
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On Power: The Independent Institute | U. S. History | World War I
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About the book Crisis and Leviathan. Visit The Independent Institute. War and Government Growth. War socialism actually began before the United States became a belligerent. When the war created a shipping shortage, the Wilson administration pushed Congress to create a federal shipping company, as well as a board to regulate private carriers and their rates. This set the tone for the domestic side of Wilsons interventionist war policy. As Independent Institute senior fellow Robert Higgs. Eksteins, Modris...
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On Power: The Independent Institute
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About the book Crisis and Leviathan. Visit The Independent Institute. 1: a position of ascendancy; ability to compel obedience; control, dominion; a military force or its equipment; ability to wage war. . . . [ Websters Third New International Dictionary. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1986]. Government has continually grown in size and scope during this past century, but how and why has it done so? In his book, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government. 149; Great ...
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On Power: The Independent Institute | U. S. History
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About the book Crisis and Leviathan. Visit The Independent Institute. 149; Civil War. 149; Progressive Era. 149; World War I. 149; Great Depression. 149; World War II. 149; Cold War. 149; Gulf Wars. 149; Terrorist War.
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Why Ireland fears a bailout - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Why Ireland fears a bailout. On November 16, 2010 at 9:00 am. Ireland fears the punitive terms of a bailout as it would have to give up partial sovereignty over its finances and could be forced to raise corporation tax. The story is here. November 16, 2010 at 5:36 am. Ireland should just repudiate–I don't understand the weird view that lenders have to be made whole or else. They took on risk–let them bear it. November 16, 2010 at 6:30 am. November 16, 2010 at 7:04 am. Here is the link:. Yes It seems as t...
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Assorted Links - Marginal REVOLUTION
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On August 26, 2010 at 7:18 am. 1) The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a. Soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to. Play soccer. Ron Paul on the mosque controversy. Pdf) of the health care bill from NCPA. 3) Philosopher Galen Strawson defends my most absurd belief. 4) Weve learned more about cooking in the past 15 years than we had in the previous 15,000 years. Video interview. But the previous 15,000 years developed a lot of. I think the ...
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Does immigration account for relatively stagnant median income? - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Does immigration account for relatively stagnant median income? On February 1, 2011 at 10:38 am. I dont see that the immigration effect explains much of the data. 1 Look at Dew-Becker and Gordon, p.62. 0160; They consider panel data for hourly compensation, and they still find a stagnant median. Also see p.78, where they summarize their results that. The stagnation extends upward through the 90th percentile of the income distribution. 2 Look at Lane Kenworthys figures. February 1, 2011 at 6:47 am. There...
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Neuroscience | The Institute for Evidence-Based Cryonics
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The Institute for Evidence-Based Cryonics. Scientists’ Open Letter on Cryonics. Recent developments relevant to cryonics. Middot; Comments Off on Recent developments relevant to cryonics. Middot; Categories: Cryonics. A lot of interesting pieces related to cryonics have appeared over the last few months that I thought I would share:. New York Times Cover story by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on “A Dying 23 Year Young Woman’s Hope in Cryonics and a Future”. The first Organ Banking Summit. Two scienti...
