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		<title>Moving on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that this blog has gone rather quiet while I work on my next book &#8211; sorry. The FT is going to mothball it, which seems reasonable. So &#8211; thanks for following so far. If you&#8217;d like &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/11/moving-on/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Moving on"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday archive : If the price is right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 8th July, 2006. If you want to be rich, you can try to set up a brilliantly successful company. Or you can steal money. Trans-parency International, the corruption watchdog, has estimated that Mohamed Suharto embezzled up to $35bn when &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/11/tuesday-archive-if-the-price-is-right/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Tuesday archive : If the price is right"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Where you can find me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that this blog has gone rather quiet while I work on my next book &#8211; sorry. The FT is going to mothball it, which seems reasonable. So &#8211; thanks for following so far. If you&#8217;d like &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/11/where-you-can-find-me/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Where you can find me"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Undercover Economist: A sense of fair play does pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the dubious pleasure of having to deal with someone who is successful and indeed popular, and yet a stubborn, selfish bully when he thinks nobody is looking. It moved me to speculate on an old question: do &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/11/undercover-economist-a-sense-of-fair-play-does-pay/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Undercover Economist: A sense of fair play does pay"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday archive : Schoolboy error</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 15th July, 2006. My school used to offer two varieties of food. There was canteen food, which was inedible, and there were chocolate bars from the tuck shop. For two years, I had four chocolate bars for lunch every &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/11/tuesday-archive-schoolboy-error/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Tuesday archive : Schoolboy error"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Undercover Economist: Stimulating debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gino de la Paz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the government hire people to bury banknotes down disused mine shafts, thus stimulating the private sector to dig them up again? Keynes argued that there were circumstances in which even government spending as wasteful as this could be economically &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/10/undercover-economist-stimulating-debate/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Undercover Economist: Stimulating debate"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday archive: Keep them guessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 17th June, 2006: It may surprise casual observers of the beautiful game to discover that one of the heroes of English football this year was a German. Jens Lehmann, the Arsenal goalkeeper, saved a last-minute penalty against the Spanish &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/10/tuesday-archive-keep-them-guessing/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Tuesday archive: Keep them guessing"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Undercover Economist: Happiness rethink</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years the received wisdom in economics has been much the same as that in Buddhism: money doesn’t make you happy (see, for instance, “The Seven Secrets of a Happy Life”, FT Weekend Magazine, August 28/29). The remainder of &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/10/undercover-economist-happiness-rethink/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Undercover Economist: Happiness rethink"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday archive: The flight of the humble pea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 10th June, 2006: I am becoming a dab hand at turnip soup now that Family Harford eschews supermarket mange-tout in favour of a weekly organic box. I have to confess that I miss the marvellous mange-tout, bursting with freshness &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/10/tuesday-archive-the-flight-of-the-humble-pea/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Tuesday archive: The flight of the humble pea"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Undercover Economist: Attested development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moral case for doing more to help the very poor is unanswerable. The practical case is more problematic: much foreign aid has been spent poorly in the past and we still have plenty to learn. The remainder of the &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/10/undercover-economist-attested-development/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Undercover Economist: Attested development"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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