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	<description>"The Undercover Economist", about economics in everyday life, and "Dear Economist", in which readers' questions are answered, tongue-in-cheek, with the latest economic theory</description>
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		<title>Paying kids for performance works after all</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/paying-kids-for-performance-works-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some psychologists argue that it is damaging to pay children for academic performance: Barry Schwartz once attacked a New York schools pilot scheme designed by Roland Fryer with that aim in mind. (If you read to the end of Schwartz&#8217;s piece, in which he cites a couple of experiments and hammers economists for their &#8220;assumptions&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A marginal victory for the well-meaning environmentalist</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/a-marginal-victory-for-the-well-meaning-environmentalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of turning this column into “The Undercover Environmentalist”, I need to return to that vexed question of carbon dioxide emissions. In my first column of the year, I vowed to reduce my carbon footprint from air travel – easy enough, given that it was 50 tonnes of CO2 last year. A kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Economist: How can we stop our child buying sweets?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/dear-economist-how-can-we-stop-our-child-buying-sweets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
When my daughter reached the age of six, my wife and I decided to give her a small amount of pocket money. However, access to money of her own would allow her to buy herself large quantities of sweeties. So instead of giving her cash in hand we keep track of the money she’s accumulated, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No yolking matter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/no-yolking-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Something different]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tim elsewhere]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always the little problems that create the biggest fuss, but in this case the Today programme&#8217;s debate on the chances of a carton of eggs all containing double yolks was unexpectedly illuminating.
Here&#8217;s the story. At about half past six, Sarah Montague and John Humphrys were debating the merits of a Daily Mail story which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity costs, a continuing series</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/opportunity-costs-a-continuing-series-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/opportunity-costs-a-continuing-series-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading The Fourth Star by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, two Pentagon correspondents. It&#8217;s a biography of four four-star generals, which then morphs into a history of the war in Iraq. An excellent read and a good companion to Tom Ricks&#8217;s books about Iraq, with less recent detail but a longer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity costs, again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/opportunity-costs-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading Leo McKinstry’s Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend. It’s a good read and surprisingly thorough – McKinstry doesn’t exactly have a reputation as a bleeding-heart liberal, but he takes trouble to debunk the “private sector good, government bad” myth-making behind the plane’s creation. I’ve been reading it as a case study in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t drop Haiti’s debt</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/02/dont-drop-haitis-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Global economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grown up economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So says David Roodman at the Center for Global Development:
&#8230;the practical question for citizens, officials, politicians, campaigners, and other players is whether to push for that. On a few days’ reflection, I say no. I would go so far as to describe such pressure as harmful.
Why? For starters, the benefits of debt relief over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the altruism theory help anyone at all?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/does-the-altruism-theory-help-anyone-at-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/does-the-altruism-theory-help-anyone-at-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People respond to incentives, so if you want something done, reach for your  wallet.That’s what you’d expect an economist to say, but it is a belief that  infuriates many commentators.
I will concede that offering cash is not always productive. In the days when  I was young, free and single, I was never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Economist: Can a cheap wine be a winner at dinner?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/dear-economist-can-a-cheap-wine-be-a-winner-at-dinner/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/dear-economist-can-a-cheap-wine-be-a-winner-at-dinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As an economics student, I look to impress my  girlfriend on a budget, and I know I am not alone. When it comes to choosing the  wine to have with dinner, on the rare occasion that I get to take my girlfriend  out, I avoid going for the cheapest bottle, as this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hayek / Keynes Rap</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/the-hayek-keynes-rap/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/2010/01/the-hayek-keynes-rap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Harford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[via Marginal Revolution and with an astonished round of applause for Russ Roberts and and John Papola. No prizes for guessing where Russ&#8217;s sympathies lie, but quite, quite brilliant.
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