<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jasoncollins.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jasoncollins.blog/author/jasonacollins/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A week of&nbsp;links]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Links this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">A few articles on the recent JEBO special issue on economics and evolution &#8211; <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/12/revolutionizing-economics-by-evolutionaizing-it/" target="_blank">Jag Bhalla in Scientific American</a>, commented on by <a href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2013/07/revolutionizing-economics-by-evolutionizing-it.html" target="_blank">Mark Thoma</a>, commented on <a href="http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/economics-and-evolution.html" target="_blank">by Mark Buchanan</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">Larry Arnhart has posted about the recent Mont Pelerin Society meeting in the Galapagos &#8211; Evolution, the Human Sciences, and Liberty. Here are posts on presentations by <a href="http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-mps-in-galapagos-2-human-cultural.html" target="_blank">Robert Boyd</a>, <a href="http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-mps-in-galapagos-4-social-brain.html" target="_blank">Robin Dunbar</a> and <a href="http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-mps-in-galapagos-5-human-nature-and.html" target="_blank">Charles Murray</a>. I expect more posts will follow. You can also download copies of the presentations <a href="http://www.usfq.edu.ec/eventos/mps_galapagos/Paginas/Speaker-Presentations.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/health/study-finds-dip-in-dementia-rates.html?hp&amp;_r=1&amp;" target="_blank">Will dementia decline due to the Flynn effect?</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/pallotta_on_cha.html" target="_blank">A great Econtalk on charities</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://theumlaut.com/2013/07/16/sexual-economics-and-the-forgotten-men/" target="_blank">Sexual Economics and the Forgotten Men</a> by Andrea Castillo</li>
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