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		<title>Entrepreneurship in Filthy, I mean, Philly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opportunity Cost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following the conversation that&#8217;s been going on Blake&#8217;s blog and on twitter about entrepreneurship in Philly and I wanted to vent because the &#8217;state of Philly&#8217; is something that I think about a great deal, being a Temple University student and all. Let me preface my comments with: I greatly respect my startup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rationality and what I&#8217;ve been up to</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing alot of research into rationality lately. Specificaly into looking at how people percieve reciprocity, altruism and punishment. I personally am not convinced of a human tendency to become altruistic, as is Herbert Gintis and some other folks involved with behavioral econ. I have recently dl&#8217;d a whole lot of the journal articles having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When can we call behavior Altruistic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Altruism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was roaming the econo-blogosphere the other day and happened across one of the &#8220;lists o&#8217; links&#8221; that Tyler Cowen dumps on occasion. One link in particular caught my eye, &#8220;How to increase altruism in toddlers&#8220;. Being very interested in altruism (not so much being altruistic as much as trying to understand it..) I went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASSC 2009 was a success</title>
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		<comments>http://www.jnort.com/austrian-student-scholars-conference/assc-2009-was-a-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austrian Student Scholars Conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from the Austrian Student Scholars Conference at Grove City. It was a great time, met a lot of interesting people and caught up with some buddies I met this last summer at Mises University @ the Mises Institute. While I didn&#8217;t place in the top 3 for my paper I&#8217;m really not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to prepare for Graduate study in Econ.</title>
		<link>http://www.jnort.com/grad-school/how-to-prepare-for-graduate-study-in-econ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grad School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m pretty sure about going to grad school for Economics (maybe Masters first then PhD, maybe just PhD).  I&#8217;ve been doing my research and I decided to do a little writeup on my findings.
First things first, in order to be prepared for good PhD programs it&#8217;s nescessary to take a lot of Maths &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beta Release: My ASSC Paper</title>
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		<comments>http://www.jnort.com/austrian-student-scholars-conference/beta-release-my-assc-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austrian Student Scholars Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Papers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on an economic paper for the Austrian Student Scholars Conference held at Grove City on October 30-31st, and finally&#8230; I&#8217;m ready to do a Beta release. The finished paper is due the 15th, so I really haven&#8217;t given anyone much time to give me a peer review &#8211; but I wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did this Economic Crisis happen? John Allison Knows&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.jnort.com/economic-crisis/how-did-this-economic-crisis-happen-john-allison-knows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an incredible lecture given by John Allison given at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. This is probably the best lecture I&#8217;ve heard on the current economic crisis. Being the former CEO of a gigantic financial firm, BB&#38;T Corporation, he is able to provide a unique, insider perspective to what went wrong.
Essentially his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Problem with &#8220;Community Service&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jnort.com/service/my-problem-with-community-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jnort.com/service/my-problem-with-community-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been thinking about this issue and I wanted to pour out my thoughts and see what ends up on the page. My problem with communtiy service/donations/volunteering is 3 fold. Keep in mind I am not saying that unequivocally volunteering/service/donating is bad, just when it has to do with one of the following 3 scenarios then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News Philly! Higher Sales Tax!</title>
		<link>http://www.jnort.com/philadelphia/good-news-philly-higher-sales-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jnort.com/philadelphia/good-news-philly-higher-sales-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a predictable move, due to facing a massive budget deficit, the city of Philadelphia has been working it&#8217;s butt off to lobby the PA house and senate for permission to raise the sales tax. Eventually, they caved and now the sales tax in Philly will go up from 7% to 8%. Though this at first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Switching to Weekly twitter updates</title>
		<link>http://www.jnort.com/uncategorized/switching-to-weekly-twitter-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jnort.com/uncategorized/switching-to-weekly-twitter-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even I was getting terribly annoyed by the daily twitter updates, and I wrote them! Starting now, I reset the plugin to no longer do daily updates, but weekly updates. All those twitter updates start to flood away my articles and clog up the &#8216;recent posts&#8217; widget on the right sidebar. No more!
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