<?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 style="margin-bottom:12px;">Links this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://werewolf.co.nz/2014/11/for-your-own-good/" target="_blank">The freedom to pursue informed self-harm has a long and noble tradition</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://andrewgelman.com/2014/10/31/boo-whos-afraid-availability-bias/" target="_blank">What happens when behavioural economics is used to explain rational behaviour</a><a href="https://cei.org/blog/gordon-tullock-rip" target="_blank">.</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="https://cei.org/blog/gordon-tullock-rip" target="_blank">A great summary of some of Gordon Tullock&#8217;s work</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/GarettJones" target="_blank">Garett Jones</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614000889" target="_blank">Another study on the limited effect of parenting on IQ</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/Billare" target="_blank">Billare </a>via <a href="https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie" target="_blank">Stuart Ritchie</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-03/hayek-s-message-for-victorious-republicans" target="_blank">What Hayek might say to Republicans</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.cliometrie.org/images/wp/AFC_WP_04-2014.pdf" target="_blank">The long shadow of history on the distribution of human capital in Europe</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/bswud" target="_blank">Ben Southwood</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">Opposition to urban development by &#8220;environmentalists&#8221; is among my bigger gripes. <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-are-liberal-cities-so-unaffordable/382045/" target="_blank">Left-leaning cities are less affordable</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">I have only just come across Dominic Cummings. <a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-hollow-men.html" target="_blank">Some interesting thoughts</a>. Check out his <a href="http://dominiccummings.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.unz.com/gnxp/jonathan-haidt-still-thinks-like-a-liberal/" target="_blank">Affirmative action to overcome liberal bias</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/how-your-brain-decides-without-you" target="_blank">How your brain decides without you</a>.</li>
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