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Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham (Britain's only indep...
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Vice Chancellor of the University of Buckingham (Britain's only independent university), Terence Kealey is a vocal critic of government funding of science. His first book, 'The Economic Laws of Scientific Research,' argues that state funding of science is neither necessary nor beneficial, a thesis that he developed in his recently published analysis of the causes scientific progress, 'Sex, Science and Profits.' In it, he makes the stronger claim that not only is government funding not beneficial, but in fact measurably obstructs scientific progress, whilst presenting an alternative, methodologically-individualist understanding of 'invisible colleges' within which science resembles a private, not a public, good.
Recorded at Christ Church, University of Oxford, on 22nd May 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Science-Pro...
http://oxlib.org.uk/
http://oxlib.blogspot.com/2009/05/myt...
POSTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE OXFORD LIBERTARIAN SOCIETY
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Barack Obama will have ONE BILLION DOLLARS to spend on his re-election in ...
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Barack Obama will have ONE BILLION DOLLARS to spend on his re-election in 2012. Bill calls that chump change. Find out how the Big Government statists spent 22,000 times that amount on buying votes in 2011 alone!
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SPL [1.29] Sun (SKT) vs brave (Samsung) 5set / Chain Reaction
Proleague is the Professional e-sports team match league in Korea and currently there ...
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SPL [1.29] Sun (SKT) vs brave (Samsung) 5set / Chain Reaction
Proleague is the Professional e-sports team match league in Korea and currently there are 2 leagues, namely StarCraft®: Brood War®(Blizzard Entertainment) and Special Force2(Dragonfly). 8 teams(KT Rolster, Samsung Electronics KHAN, STX Soul, SK Telecom T1, CJ Entus, Airforce Ace, Woongjin Stars, 8th game) participate in the StarCraft Proleague and also 8 teams(KT Rolster, STX Soul, SK Telecom T1, CJ Entus, Woongjin Stars, IT Bank, Tving, Q'SSEN) participate in the Special Force2 Proleague. Proleague 2011-2012 Season takes place at the Youngsan e-Sports Stadium (I-PARKmall, 9th floor) every Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday for Starcraft & every Saturday and Tuesday for Special Force2.
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Many believe that market economies create a dog eat dog environment full of human conflict and struggle. To Prof. Aeon Skoble, the competition in m...
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Many believe that market economies create a dog eat dog environment full of human conflict and struggle. To Prof. Aeon Skoble, the competition in markets does not create conflict, but rather, encourages people to cooperate with one another for mutual benefit.
For instance, suppose a thief steals a suit from Macy's. If Macy's knew who the thief was, one could argue that Macy's has an incentive to keep this information from their competitors. By withholding information about the thief, it would make it much less likely that thief would get caught while robbing Macy's competitors. However, in the real world, competitors share information about theft with one another, creating a valuable information network. Competitors share information because it is in all of their mutual interest to crack down on theft. If a business chooses to ignore the information network, they lose out on valuable information.
The example above is just one of many examples where competitors have a strong incentive to cooperate with one another. In a certain way, we're all merchants who trade with one another. We all individually depend on networks of reputation and trust to own a car, own a home, and have a job. In a world of competition and scarcity, we are not only capable of cooperating with one another, but we frequently do.
These voluntary systems of social cooperation, often called organic or spontaneous orders, are not planned from the top down by enlightened rulers. Rather, they emerge overtime as individuals interact with one another. These spontaneous orders are all around us, and include important things like language, fashion, internet memes, prices in a market, and law.
Going back to the suit thief, it may very well be the case that some individuals abstain from crime because of the threat of jail. However, it is also very likely that crime is prevented through networks of trust and reputation. The next time you hear that the problems that society faces can only be solved by applying force from the top down, you are right to be skeptical. Peaceful and voluntary mechanisms that encourage and facilitate cooperation are all around us.
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Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, explains the biological basis of race.
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Weiss, Rick, and Justin Gillis. "Teams Finish Mapp...
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Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, explains the biological basis of race.
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Weiss, Rick, and Justin Gillis. "Teams Finish Mapping Human DNA." Washington Post 27 June 2000: A1. Print.
Edwards, A.W.F. "Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin's Fallacy." BioEssays 25.8 (2003): 798-801. Web. http://www.goodrumj.com/Edwards.pdf.
Lewontin, Richard C. "The Apportionment of Human Diversity." Evolutionary Biology 6 (1972): 391-98. Print.
Risch, Niel J. et al. "Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies." American Journal of Human Genetics 76.2 (2005): 268-75. Web. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
Ousley, Stephen D. "Understanding Race and Human Variation: Why Forensic Anthropologists Are Good at Identifying Race." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139 (2009): 68-76. Web.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10....
Sauer, Norman J. "Forensic Anthropology and the Concept of Race: If Races Don't Exist, Why Are Forensic Anthropologists So Good at Identifying Them?" Social Science Medicine 34.2 (1992): 107-11. Print.
Norton, Cherry. "Hidden Black Ancestry Linked to Rise in Sickle Cell Blood Disorder." Independent. 23 Oct. 1999. Web. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-sty....
Motulsky, Arno G. "Frequency of Sickling Disorders in U.S. Blacks." New England Journal of Medicine 288 (1973): 31-33. Print.
"Hemochromatosis." PubMed Health. 12 Apr. 2010. Web.
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Parker, Heidi G et al. "Genetic Structure of the Purebred Domestic Dog." Science 304 (2004): 1160-164. Print.
"Race: Are We So Different?" Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Web. http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/race/.
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