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PublicAffairs Books: THE POLITICAL BRAIN - 8 views

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  • In general, the goal is to convince voters that your candidate is trustworthy, competent, empathic, and capable of strong leadership, and to raise doubts about the opposition along one or more of these dimensions
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      Lauren Dudley on 09 Oct 12
       
      I know that this is an important goal and everything as campaigning is about strategy to make your candidate look the best, but can't we see politicians actually just come striaght out with no hidden agenda or goals like this... Just focus on the issues, and actually say what they think will truly help this country, not just what they think the people want to hear.
  • associations tend to hold more sway with voters than judgments about a candidate's particular traits (as
Lauren Dudley

The Road to Serfdom - Readers Digest, April 1945 Condensation - 7 views

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  • When all the means of production are vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of "society" as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us.
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      Lauren Dudley on 27 Sep 12
       
      This statement after the private property statement above is important as people need private property in order to make decisions that are best for themselves, individually. If all the power is put into society as a whole, then some poeple will not be happy as the power rests with "society" or a single person. Individuals need to have the chance to conduct their own business and to be free, so that society as individuals have power over themselves and not be forced into something that they do not want. They might have to go along though as they are dependent on the powerful for their economic wellness in society.
  • Yet socialism was early recognized by many thinkers as the gravest threat to freedom
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      Lauren Dudley on 27 Sep 12
       
      I find this to be true as socialism puts the power of individuals into the hands of "society" or one individual, which takes away each individual's freedom to decide what they want to do personally and that means each individual loses their freedom to advance in the world (as they choose what they want for themselves and not society as a whole), instead of being at the same level as everyone else of that society.
  • Now it was made to mean freedom from necessity, the old demand for a redistribution of wealth.
    • Lauren Dudley
      Lauren Dudley on 27 Sep 12
       
      So basically socialism is aiming at taking away the freedom of the people to act as individuals by trying to get to them by taking care of their financial needs. The socialism idea may seem nice right then and there because it provides a sense of security, but the freedom taken away by not being able to decide how to deal with your private property in the long run, in my opinion, is a bigger deal than that sense of security for now.
Lauren Dudley

The endowment effect: It’s mine, I tell you | The Economist - 11 views

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  • The endowment effect was controversial for years. The idea that a squishy, irrational bit of human behaviour could affect the cold, clean and rational world of markets was a challenge to neoclassical economists
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      Lauren Dudley on 18 Sep 12
       
      Human beings are obviously irrational... the market wants to see everything in a black white sort of way- humans will base their transactions on their self interests and how they can gain. Not everything can be based on this as humans act with emotion and instinct, what they feel is right in the moment, even if its just that feeling of posession.
  • who recently had some expensive bottles of wine stolen, observes that he is “now confronted with precisely one of my own experiments: these are bottles I wasn't planning to sell and now I'm going to get a cheque from an insurance company and most of these bottles I will not buy.
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      Lauren Dudley on 18 Sep 12
       
      This is an interesting point as he points out that he wanted to keep the bottles as he was not going to sell them, but then once they were stolen and he received money for them, he would not replace them. I guess if you did deeper into this, you could say he found he was not as attached to them as he thought, or he did not want other ones, he wanted his own.. but who can really say except for Dr. Thaler.
Lauren Dudley

Does the Invisible Hand Need a Helping Hand? - Reason.com - 8 views

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  • In other words, as people gain more experience with markets, morals and material incentives pull together.
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      Lauren Dudley on 18 Sep 12
       
      In markets, human beings will look out for their own self interest, because that is a part of human nature, so I do not know about gaining morals in the market because humans will find the best deal for them that they can get. All they have to do is get the other person to agree with them, it does not always have to be fair especially if one side needs something desperately.
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      Lauren Dudley on 18 Sep 12
       
      but yes the market could help people to learn how to work with others so that we could all benefit
Lauren Dudley

Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

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  • They scream, they shriek, they moan, they writhe: and they do it two to a room because there is no such thing as private delivery space. Nor for the most part is there any such thing as pain relief - a trip round the dispensary reveals empty shelves. Only women who have a caesarean are given anaesthetic.
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      Lauren Dudley on 13 Sep 12
       
      It is horrible to hear about the agony that women have to go through in Niger to bring a new life into this world, a moment that should be joyous. It is astounding and I bet that many people are not even aware... we here in the United States take for granted our modern technology, safe environments, and the knowledge we have in order to have safe procedures, such as during childbirth. I hope that this changes soon in order to give these women somewhat of a relief.
  • harassed-looking midwives
  • "What makes us successful is that we put women at the centre of what we're doing,"
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      Lauren Dudley on 13 Sep 12
       
      This is a big difference between Niger and Sweden as Niger doesnt provide what should be necessities and the father is not apart of the birthing process, etc. In Sweden they realize how miraculous this process is, but also how precautious they need to be... I hope Niger can get sufficient funds and work on increasing their care of the women to give them some peace of mind about the labour process.
Lauren Dudley

Dr. Marichal's Course Portals (2170) - 32 views

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      Lauren Dudley on 09 Sep 12
       
      "Moral dumbfounding" is a really interesting point in this article to me as it is true how people react to certain issues based on instincts. They react based on how they grew up with society, their background, and their upbringing. I think people should be discussing why they really think certain "social issues" are wrong, even if they do not hurt other people.
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      Lauren Dudley on 09 Sep 12
       
      After listening to this podcast, I would probably agree with most people about pulling the lever and not pushing the man, as it is more personal in some way. Then as for the baby, I do not think I could do that even if it did save more people. As for deriving from apes in that morality form, I am just not sure about that yet, as I believe the world around your upbringing plays a big role.
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    "moral dubfounding"
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