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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Favourite</title>
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		<title>Alternatives to capitalism: Nikolai Bukharin on the division of labour</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/08/nikolai-bukharin-on-the-division-of-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brought forward &#8211; I&#8217;m on holiday.
Thinking about the pressures on capitalism &#8212; or rather, on the interventionism that passes for capitalism today &#8212; and on the alternative which was most comprehensively implemented, I discovered this recipe for chaos and failure from Bukharin:
Under communism people receive a many-sided culture, and find themselves at home in various ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bad Thoughts, a guide to clear thinking&#8221; &#8212; Jamie Whyte</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Whyte&#8217;s book &#8220;Bad Thoughts&#8221; is a tremendous guide for those who are seriously interested in the welfare of everyone in society, and who are not prepared to separate moral and intellectual seriousness.
Whyte&#8217;s 152-page book is entertaining and relevant and I do recommend it. In the meantime, I offer a brief and possibly inadequate guide ]]></description>
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		<title>Child stabbings almost double in five years  &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/child-stabbings-almost-double-in-five-years-telegraph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Child stabbings almost double in five years  &#8211; Telegraph:
Youngsters aged under 18 needing hospital treatment for wounds from a knife or sharp object have leapt up by 83 per cent since 2003, NHS figures show.
There has also been a sharp rise in the number of children needing hospital treatment for any form of ]]></description>
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		<title>New Deal in Old Rome</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/new-deal-in-old-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mises store:
How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems
What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times.
H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does what everyone has wanted done. He details the amazing catalog of government ]]></description>
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		<title>[bumped up] The economic debate becomes more fundamental</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/06/correcting-quiggin-on-austrian-business-cycle-theory-robert-p-murphy-mises-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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This post has been brought forward for those people who asked me today about money, bank credit and economic cycles while I was telling for the EU and local elections.
As the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle gains interest for its coherent explanation of our present predicatment, it also gains opponents. Here, Robert Murphy answers ]]></description>
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		<title>Surveying Cameron&#8217;s constituency and jumping with a paratrooper</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/skydiving-weston-30-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 08:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather was superb for skydiving yesterday and Weston was alive with skydivers, tandem passengers and their families. Beth caught me on camera a couple of times under canopy:

I jumped three times. The first two were solo jumps for fun &#8212; one in shorts, one in my FS suit &#8212; allowing me time to survey ]]></description>
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		<title>CCF Seminar: knife and gun crime</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/ccf-seminar-knife-and-gun-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated
Tonight, I heard some remarkable and shocking accounts of knife and gun crime in Britain and what is to be done about it.
I&#8217;ll not repeat the accounts of the crimes themselves: some are too grotesque to publish here. And that is part of the problem. Some young people in some sections of society are today ]]></description>
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		<title>The Apostle of Free Trade: Richard Cobden</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/the-apostle-of-free-trade-richard-cobden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Gowing&#8217;s 1885 biography of Richard Cobden, whose doctrine was that free trade would lead to world peace through interdependence and mutual cooperation.
Cobden was a leader of the Anti-Corn-Law League &#8212; a substantial feat of political agitation &#8212; which was established to oppose protectionist measures on corn and decrease the price of basic ]]></description>
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		<title>Presentations of capital-based macroeconomics</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/presentations-of-capital-based-macroeconomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though not for the faint-hearted, this first-class Powerpoint presentation of capital-based macroeconomics &#8212; based on Roger Garrison&#8217;s &#8220;Time and Money&#8221; &#8212; provides helpful animations explaining how the structure of production changes in response to saving and investment. It shows how malinvestment and overconsumption arise.
The original home of these presentations is here, but they have also been ]]></description>
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		<title>A new politics: We need a massive, radical redistribution of power &#124; David Cameron &#124;  The Guardian</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/a-new-politics-we-need-a-massive-radical-redistribution-of-power-david-cameron-the-guardian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron writes, in the Guardian, four articles on reforming politics:
The public reaction to the political crisis over MPs&#8217; expenses is far too serious to be assuaged by any instant package of measures, or even the sight of MPs paying the price for unethical behaviour. I think the British people&#8217;s fury at politicians today indicates ]]></description>
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