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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</description>
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		<title>The Hedonic Treadmill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You finally win the lottery.  How much happier will you be in the long run?
You finally are able to marry that desirable partner you always wanted.  How much happier will you be long term?
Tragically, a teenage girl loses a limb in an automobile accident.  How much unhappier will she be in the long run?
A young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of No-Fault Divorce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about Prof. Doug Allen&#8217;s talk at the BYU Symposium. Divorce is important to study, because no one fully anticipated how much changing divorce rules would change many other areas of society. I posted on this lecture, from the conference itself. see here. 
Allen said, it&#8217;s safe to say between 10 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. J&#8217;s Debate with an Objectivist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listened to Dr. J&#8217;s debate with Objectivist Dr. Yaron Brook about capitalism.  I have to say that the debate was quite one sided.  Dr. J delivered a polite yet devastating drubbing to Dr. Brook.
Of course, being a fan of debate, especially those with religious/secular themes, I find it hard not to kibbitz.  So, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Christianity Compatible with Capitalism?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/23/is-christianity-compatible-with-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My debate at Stanford, with Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute, has just been put on our podcast page.  Pretty fun debate, pretty friendly debate, too, especially compared with some of my encounters on same sex marriage. I especially like the Q&#038;A at the end of this debate. Enjoy!
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		<title>A (slightly) nerdy explanation for the economic downturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear the Boom and Bust: A Hayek v Keynes rap anthem
My friends know I&#8217;m an economics nerd, so they&#8217;ll forgive me for going (slightly) off-topic. Full disclosure: one of the producers of this vid is Russ Roberts, a friend of mine, going back to my post-doc days at the University of Chicago!
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