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		<title>Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/survival-of-the-unfittest-why-the-worst-infrastructure-gets-built%e2%80%94and-what-we-can-do-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built—and what we can do about it: [...] Taken together, the UK and US studies both account well for existing data on cost underestimation and benefit overestimation. Both studies falsify the notion that in situations with high political and organizational pressure the underestimation of costs ]]></description>
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		<title>Via Detlev Schlichter: Deceits and delusions – Some thoughts on the euro-crisis and democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/deceits-and-delusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody with any knowledge of economics should feel uneasy at the sight of a country where half of recorded economic activity is conducted by the state. Are such semi-socialist societies operable, and if so, for how long? Read the article via Deceits and delusions – Some thoughts on the euro-crisis and democracy. Here&#8217;s the growth ]]></description>
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		<title>Poster of the week &#8211; 1929, &#8220;Socialism would mean inspectors all round&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/socialism-all-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/socialism-all-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=10589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Conservative Poster Archive, poster 1929-31, &#8220;Socialism would mean inspectors all round&#8221;. Too true, unfortunately: see Harry Snook&#8217;s Crossing the Threshold - 266 ways the State can enter your home from the Centre for Policy Studies (PDF) and my related question in debate]]></description>
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		<title>How government and the economy interact</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/how-government-and-the-economy-interact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another thought-provoking video from Learn Liberty: I have had a fascinating but concerning week, watching the Government commit to a giant state-planned, taxpayer-backed project in the shape of HS2, getting to know some of the surprisingly thoughtful people in the Occupy movement, speaking with Radio 4 Analysis about what is wrong with capitalism and, ]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas are more powerful than armies</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/ideas-are-more-powerful-than-armies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: amended links for public read access. This afternoon, I am presenting five books which illustrate that ideas are more powerful than armies at the Young Briton&#8217;s Foundation conference. Here are the slides: Or browse here]]></description>
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		<title>Did I have a Freudian slip when asking about the EU at PMQs?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Daily Mail, Quentin Letts reports that I called for the UK to quit the EU altogether at PMQs yesterday. Some colleagues also thought I said &#8220;leave&#8221; not &#8220;lead&#8221;.  Hansard reports my intended words: Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is time for this country to lead Europe into the ]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for reform of our extradition arrangements</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/extradition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/extradition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I attended and intervened in the debate on reform of our extradition arrangements. The motion was as follows: That this House calls upon the Government to reform the UK’s extradition arrangements to strengthen the protection of British citizens by introducing as a matter of urgency a Bill to enact the safeguards recommended by the ]]></description>
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		<title>Thank goodness for Janet Daley</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/thank-goodness-for-janet-daley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/thank-goodness-for-janet-daley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If ever there was a time for radical proposals by a governing party, this is it. Rather than the imitative, mealy-mouthed shuffling of dollops of money from one departmental scheme to another, in what will inevitably look like panic in the face of rising youth unemployment and disappointing growth figures, what we need is a ]]></description>
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		<title>British Bikers Protest Planned EU Motorbike Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/british-bikers-protest-planned-eu-motorbike-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/british-bikers-protest-planned-eu-motorbike-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great stuff from Mike Weatherley ]]></description>
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		<title>Video from LearnLiberty.org: Equality &amp; Respect: How I&#8217;m Equal to Hugh Jackman</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/equality-respect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/equality-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More here. See also: Principles for a Free Society, Dr Nigel Ashford]]></description>
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