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…n’t want this to kinda sound namby-pamby, “Let’s all hold hands and sing ‘Kumbaya’ around capitalism.” But there’s a strand of capitalism today — two strands of it, that are very disturbing. One is state-sponsored capitalism. And that’s the capitalism you see in China and Russi...

…, & Lee, J. J. (2008). The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(3), 833-838. Rand, D. G., & Epstein, Z. G. (2014). Risking your life without a second thought: Intuitive decision-making and extreme altruism. Available at SSRN 2424036. Ro...

…America faces no existential threat”: See James Dobbins, et al. Choices for America in a Turbulent World (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2015) xiv 244 In his classic essay: Andre Wolfers, “National Security’ as an ambigious symbol”, Political Science Quarterly, 67 (1952) 485 1...

…side risks have diminished somewhat in recent months. We expect Greece to stay in the euro this year and sign a new memorandum in November. In the US modest fiscal tightening is expected with the Fed mitigating downside growth risks. The risk of an idiosyncratic slowdown in Asia...

…arco Veruggio and others have raised issues of roboethics since 2002; the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry and the RAND spin-off Institute for the Future have raised issues of robot rights since 2006. “Ts versus ought” It is commonplace to say that science concerns “is,” n...

…nt to those patients referred by me. Eventually, I was subpoenaed by district attorneys in two cities to appear before grand juries investigating criminal charges against abortionists. On both occasions I refused to testify, and each time the D.A. tried to frighten me into cooper...

…f fairness" as Barack Obama puts it. David Kelley, the president of the Atlas Society, which is dedicated to promoting Rand's ideas, explains that "the older the book gets, the more timely its message." He tells me that there are plans to make "Atlas Shrugged" into a major motio...

…on't want this to kinda sound namby-pamby, "Let's all hold hands and sing `Kumbaya' around capitalism." But there's a strand of capitalism today — two strands of it, that are very disturbing. One is state-sponsored capitalism. And that's the capitalism you see in China and Russia...

…c does not realize is the impact of the long- range planning that goes on in think tanks such as Stanford Research, the Rand Corporation and the Hudson Institute. They are already beginning to orchestrate the Bimillennium, the 2000" birthday of Christ. The function of Jimmy Carte...

…d large effects in settings as diverse as blood donation (Lacetera & Macis, 2010), blackout prevention (Yoeli, Hoffman, Rand, & Nowak, 2013), and support for national parks (Alpizar, Carlsson, & Johansson-Stenman, 2008). In Switzerland, voting rates fell in small communi- ties wh...

…International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, June 2012 “China and Iran: Economic, Military and Political Relations”, Rand Center for Middle East Public Policy, 2012 “Addicted to Oil: Strategic Implications of American Oil Policy”, Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army...

…on't want this to kinda sound namby-pamby, "Let's all hold hands and sing `Kumbaya' around capitalism." But there's a strand of capitalism today — two strands of it, that are very disturbing. One is state-sponsored capitalism. And that's the capitalism you see in China and Russia...

…ters.com/article/2013/08/25/ us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUS BRE97000E20130825 on 12 March 2015. Yoeli, E., Hoffman, M., Rand, D. G., & Nowak, M. A. (2013). Powering up with indirect reci- procity in a large-scale field experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

…onna M. Sheinbach, Michael D. McNeely, Nancy Luque, Steven A. Maddox, Gray Cary Ware and Friedenrich LLP (DC), Mitchell Rand Berger, Ronald Stanley Liebman, Patton Boggs LLP (DC), Martin Francis McMahon, Stephanie Wall Fell, Martin F. McMahon and Associates, Thomas Peter Steindle...

…ith enormous liabilities — the yen given Japan’s full-throated commitment to looser monetary and fiscal policy, and the rand on sovereign credit and balance of payment concerns. EUR/USD has spiked since Thursday’s ECB meeting but is underperforming much of the commodity complex (...