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	<title><![CDATA[Off-The-Cuff]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[  Def:&nbsp; Not prepared in advance; impromptu, a few unrehearsed comments, ad hoc, on the spur of the&nbsp;moment, &nbsp;an extemporary lecture, with little or no preparation or forethought&nbsp;: an off-the-cuff remark.&nbsp;&nbsp;  Ryan Moore  &nbsp;Ken Brockland  &nbsp;Michael Thomas            It may sound noble to say, “Damn economics, let us build up a decent world” – but it is, in fact, merely irresponsible.&nbsp;   With our world as it is, with everyone convinced that the material conditions here or there must be improved, our only chance of building a decent world is that we can continue to improve the general level of wealth. The one thing modern democracy will not bear without cracking is the necessity of a substantial lowering of the standards of living in peacetime or even prolonged stationariness of its economic conditions.'   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - F. A. Hayek    ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Property rights in other people – jealousy]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17807/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Strictly speaking we don’t like to think about our relationships as property rights in other people.&nbsp; Moreover, thinking in this way will lead to some very real lessons...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Micro- L3:]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17626/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were driving along Braddock Road recently you would have seen many signs with people’s names on them.&nbsp; An insight into this phenomena would be that elections are...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Feeling Uninspired...   -Ken B]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17625/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel miserable right now...&nbsp;I am seriously on the verge of minimalism...&nbsp; do I care if my seriously reduced consumption speding adversely affects the economy?&nbsp;...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Macro – Real Business Cycle Theory –]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17603/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Several Pieces of “Evidence” (This theory became more creditable when all alternatives were exhausted).&nbsp; No one came to the RBC theory because of real evidence, or...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Research question:  Why do recessions happen?]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17540/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  The traditional explanation is that there are lags in the market for wages, for equilibrium aggregate supply and demand (if aggregate demand can even be fully...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lecture two – Micro]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17488/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Economic activities  Recall: Consumption is destruction of utility.&nbsp; How does this work in the public good context?&nbsp; Consider a piece of artwork.&nbsp; If I look at...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Assumptions in Economic theory – Nagel]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17465/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It is my prediction that the title of this piece is going to offer the most clear insight into what it is about.&nbsp; This piece does not exist without the critique it makes on...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Methodology of Positive Economics – Milton Friedman]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17451/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The thrust of this essay is to develop a manner of referring to economics as a positive science.&nbsp; This simply means that economics will focus on rules which determine...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cs get degrees]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17337/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bush received a business degree from Harvard, are you telling me that there are no econ courses in that degree?&nbsp; Yet he still will make statements like this:...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Micro Class]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17311/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[First any good economics class lays the groundwork with definitions.&nbsp; There will be several definitions offered in this representation of the lecture notes.  &nbsp;...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The threat of war]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/17100/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[War is a dirty nasty thing, but in my zero experience opinion, it cannot be the worst thing out there.&nbsp; Many of my peers in the blogging world have made the claim that we...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Law and Economics]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/16524/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this association a natural one?&nbsp; We tell students that are pre-law that a degree in economics will advance them well on the way to success in law school.&nbsp; One of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federalist 8 – Publius (Hamilton)]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/16119/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Federalist VIII is an extremely relevant and important read.&nbsp; Hamilton details one of the most persuasive arguments for maintaining union among the former British colonies...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA["Bracing for the big one"]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15959/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[“Bracing for the Big One”  &nbsp;  This article is the lesser of two very nearly Yellow journalist articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today. &nbsp;Yellow journalism was...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[supply-side]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15602/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I hold a master’s degree in Economics, but I am going to part with a dirty little secret; I don’t feel as if I have mastered the subject completely.&nbsp; I of...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[equality - Michael]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15427/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Equality is an interesting idea.&nbsp; This is one of those words that gets thrown around so much, on both sides of any issue, that it is worthy of some time spent thinking...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[autonomous spheres -Michael]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15413/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 5 of road to serfdom opens with an interesting implicit question.  The distinction between a “classically liberal democracy” (a democracy which holds the individual...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Road to serfdom (revisited) -Michael]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15356/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[My current rereading of “Road to Serfdom” is paying off in ways that I did not anticipate when I picked the book up this morning.&nbsp; Within the several prefaces to the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Socratic Problem in Economics - Michael Thomas]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15324/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[  &nbsp;(inspired by Eric Schliesser’s talk at the Summer Institute; logical and historical errors are mine)  &nbsp;  So Dr. Schlisser told us that there is a Socratic problem...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Knowledge - Michael Thomas]]></title>
		<link>http://offthecuff.bravejournal.com/entry/15267/</link>
		<description><![CDATA["A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - G. K. Chesterton in Everlasting Man, 1925  &nbsp;  There is much work linking Darwin to...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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