<?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 href="http://socialevolutionforum.com/2013/08/26/ibn-khaldun-on-the-rise-and-decline-of-corporate-empires/" target="_blank">Peter Turchin on Ibn Khaldun</a> and the rise and decline of corporate empires.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/4/the-unlikely/sciences-significant-stats-problem" target="_blank">Another critique of p-values</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/88/20130544.full" target="_blank">John McNamara proposes</a> that we need to move to a richer evolutionary game theory. The article focuses on biology, but many of the same comments could be made of economics. I&#8217;ll post on the article in coming weeks.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/scarcity-why-having-too-little-means-so-much.html" target="_blank">Tyler Cowen on scarcity of mental bandwidth</a>. And <a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/6716/" target="_blank">another take by Emily Badger</a>.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#333333;">The ongoing Evolution: This View of Life series of interviews <a href="http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/on-the-origins-of-human-behavior-and-evolution-society-william-irons" target="_blank">On the Origins of Human Behavior And Evolution Society</a> moves to William Irons.</span></span></li>
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