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	<title>Adam Norman</title>
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		<title>Epicurus</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/05/12/epicurus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Epicurus’ Principle Doctrines, decoded badly

It is blessed to not cause trouble for yourself or others. This lets you be free from anger and partiality. These are signs of weakness.
Death is nothing to us. Once we become dissolved atoms, we don’t experience anything. We’re gone. What’s there to worry about?
Maximum pleasure is having no pain.
Even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearce and Atkinson, Capital theory and sustainable development</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/05/07/pearce-and-atkinson-capital-theory-and-sustainable-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/05/07/pearce-and-atkinson-capital-theory-and-sustainable-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pearce and Atkinson take up Victor&#8217;s challenge and make a indicator of sustainability. They say that if the savings rate exceeds the combined depreciation of physical and natural capital, that the economy is &#8216;weakly&#8217; sustainable.
Of course, they assume that natural capital and physical capital are interchangeable. This is a big assumption, and one with which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indicators of sustainable development</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/05/01/indicators-of-sustainable-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/05/01/indicators-of-sustainable-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Victor was my thesis supervisor, so it&#8217;s delightful to read his influential paper.
In it, Victor examines several theories of capital to determine how they might deal with sustainability. The first is
The neoclassical school, as expressed by Herfindahl and Kneese. Capital, according the the H-K theory, &#8220;yields a flow of productive services over time and&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic growth and the environment</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/30/economic-growth-and-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/30/economic-growth-and-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Grossman and Krueger.
In this paper, Grossman and Krueger trace out the environmental Kuznets curves for pollutants in cities. They study atmospheric and water pollutants. In general, they find that there is a Kuznets relationship, with pollution peaking around the GDP of Mexico or Malaysia.
There conclusions are in line with Arrow et al; Grossman and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/30/resilience-and-stability-of-ecological-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/30/resilience-and-stability-of-ecological-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This paper, by C.S. Holling, is a primer on ecology. In it, Holling distinguishes between resilience and stability. Stability is the tendency of a population to remain constant in time, even when faced with disruptions. If, say, we pluck out 500 of the 1000 fruitflies in a jar, they will be quickly replaced, reaching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/economic-growth-carrying-capacity-and-the-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/economic-growth-carrying-capacity-and-the-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Arrow, Bolin, Costanza, Dasgupta et al.
Everybody hopes that growth and environmental quality follow a Kuznets curve: that as our economy grows, we can afford to buy more environmental quality.
This paper, the second most important paper according to Costanza&#8217;s list, is pessimistic that environmental quality and economic growth have this relationship.
The authors sensibly divide environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of the world&#8217;s ecosystem services</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/the-value-of-the-worlds-ecosystem-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/the-value-of-the-worlds-ecosystem-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This paper was by Costanza et al. It is the most cited paper in EE.
In The value of the world&#8217;s ecosystem services and natural capital, Costanza et al try to place a monetary value on the services of the natural systems of the environment. Marshes, for instance, protect cities from hurricanes. Coral reefs provide habitat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological economics papers</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/ecological-economics-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/ecological-economics-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Eco Econ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the difficulties of getting a multi-disciplinary degree is that one never feels certain that one has mastered the disciplines in question
I have an MA in environmental studies. I focussed on ecological economics. I feel I know it quite well, but it is quite hard for me to tell for certain whether I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The usefulness of higher education</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/the-usefulness-of-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/the-usefulness-of-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Andy Barrie interviewed a philosophy professor. The good doctor was at pains to prove that philosophy is good for many very practical things. He trotted out the same old horse: philosophy teaches critical thinking, and critical thinking is always in demand. Computer skills come and go, but the ability to think&#8211;that&#8217;s timeless.
To be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professors on the CBC</title>
		<link>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/professors-on-the-cbc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamnorman.com/2008/04/29/professors-on-the-cbc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adamnorman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Andy Barrie interviewed two professors on the usefulness of a university education. He made mention of a college education at least twice: once in the beginning, and once at the end. Neither person he spoke to, however, was a college teacher. One was a philosophy professor, defending philosophy as practical (it&#8217;s not); one [...]]]></description>
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