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		<title>Excerpt from our Book: Dumb History &#8211; The Boston Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is an excerpt from our new book: Bringing Sexy Back to Economics. 
It is an understatement to say that the late 1700’s were a turbulent time in American History. The colonists were fed up with being considered second class citizens and more and more of them were eager to rid themselves of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Spending vs. Unemployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The graph at the bottom of this page is enough to make me want to buy the book.
 It&#8217;s Not as Bad as You Think: Why Capitalism Trumps Fear and the Economy Will Thrive , by Brian Wesbury. 
A review will be forthcoming. 
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		<title>Systems and Checklists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very interesting to read two books like Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, by Sam Carpenter, and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande, back to back because what strikes you is how similar their message is.
Work the System details the long, hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Keynes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it turns out John Maynard Keynes would have probably completely disagreed with the counter-cyclical policies we are currently seeing (reactions to free markets and deregulation leading to the over-regulations and over-muzzling of markets). I confess not having read Keynes&#8217; A Treatise on Money (apart from several excerpts in our Macroeconomics class which I must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Markets Fail &#8211; By John Cassidy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We warned readers several months ago to expect an onslaught of books talking of the evils of the free markets and (fallaciously) talking up Behavioral economics as the mutually exclusive counterpoint. So we can&#8217;t help feeling somewhat vindicated by the fact that How Markets Fail, by John Cassidy, does just this. 
In all fairness, Cassidy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SuperFreakonomics &#8211; A Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first we were not going to read and review Superfreakonomics.  Since we had already written a review on Freakonomics and we knew this follow up book was in the same vein, we didn&#8217;t think there would be much to add.
What changed our mind was the overwhelming response to their chapter on climate change. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Europe has NOT done wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up to our last article, it seems this idea of the evil foreigners is in vogue, and will probably stay that way until the economy recovers.  It is just unfortunate when one encounters literature of a seemingly intellectual status regurgitating the same lopsided information.  Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nudge &#8211; A Brief Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nudge is a thought-provoking new book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.  Being a fan of Thaler&#8217;s we kept reading past the point where they introduce the name for their new concept: Libertarian Paternalism, despite growing apprehension.  It turned out to be worth it.  
Libertarian Paternalism remains somewhat true to both terms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are what we Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloss at any Economics or Business best-seller list these days, and you will see a sign of the times.  While the year 2000 brought us The Millionaire Mind, by Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Next Door, by William Danko and Thomas Stanley (Stanley kept busy) and Jack, by Jack Welch, 2006 brought us Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Crowds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is as good a primer as any to the Dumb Agent Theory, so it is with great pleasure that I write a review of it on this site: 

The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki
Anchor Books, 2005. 306 pp., $10.17
The message of this book, in a nutshell, is that groups are more intelligent than [...]]]></description>
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