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		<title>Life in Nassim Nicholas Taleb&#8217;s Extremistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Nassim Nicholas Taleb last year, briefly, at a lecture he gave on the impact of highly improbable events: Black Swans. I&#8217;m just reading his book now. And then along came my own Black Swan. Against all expectations, improbably yet explicably, but hopefully inconsequentially, I have been adopted as DK&#8217;s Blog Mascot. As Taleb ]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the day &#8211; Karl Popper on reason and critical discussion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From All Life is Problem Solving: When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to ]]></description>
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		<title>The altruistic individual in society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for an article to be published in the Autumn, I just reread The Open Society and Its Enemies &#8211; Volume 1: The Spell of Plato. The book traces mankind&#8217;s opposition to change and the consequent rise of the myth of destiny, technically, historicism: the belief that history unfolds according to laws which can ]]></description>
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		<title>Speech in the budget debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): When I came to the House today, I expected to hear a great deal of Keynesian argument and I have not been disappointed. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Austin Mitchell) is no longer in the Chamber, as I wanted to congratulate him on his comprehensive grasp ]]></description>
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		<title>Blair commits a revolt against reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here I am,  back online in our new High Wycombe home, just in time for this revolt against reason: Following the ‘climategate scandal’, Mr Blair said the science may not be “as certain as its proponents allege”. But he said the world should act as a precaution against floods, droughts and mass extinction caused ]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability: An Assault on Economics &#8211; Tyler A. Watts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my key areas of interest is how to deliver sustainable, stable and inclusive prosperity. This is why I dedicate so much time to economics. However, the word &#8220;sustainable&#8221; may not convey the same thing to everyone: via Sustainability: An Assault on Economics &#8211; Tyler A. Watts &#8211; Mises Institute: The sustainability movement is ]]></description>
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		<title>Some favourite quotes from Karl Popper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Popper is without doubt my favourite character in political philosophy. He was rational, believing knowledge and truth to be objective, but aware of the boundaries of reason. A scientist but concerned with the mechanisms of society. By humanitarian inclination a social democrat &#8212; when that meant &#8220;Marxist&#8221; &#8212; but by reason a liberal: a ]]></description>
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		<title>The American Museum in Britain, Bath</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/08/the-american-museum-in-britain-bath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, we visited the American Museum in Britain. It was thought-provoking: America was of course conceived in liberty but American history, like every nation&#8217;s, is filled with examples of man&#8217;s inhumanity to man. The exhibition began with a wall of quotations from significant figures. These particularly stood out: William Penn (1644-1718): Those people ]]></description>
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		<title>The Spell of Plato</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/01/the-spell-of-plato/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a friend&#8217;s request, I spoke to a sixth form class on &#8220;The Spell of Plato&#8221;, explaining how Plato&#8217;s philosophy is relevant today. As the title suggests, I used Popper&#8217;s critique of Plato&#8217;s philosophy to explore these two propositions: Government ought to control us to ensure social, political and economic justice. We ought to control ]]></description>
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