Probably for the same reason poor people are less selfish than rich people (there’s ample evidence for this): the harder one’s life, the more one understands that we depend on each other and that human success is predicated on being able to cooperate.
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Prisoners are less selfish than students: “They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect” (Business Insider Australia)
Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: altruism, behavior, cooperative, game theory, microeconomics, Prisoner's dilemma, selfish
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Powerful statement from an Oakland collective. Read it if you want to understand how most of the world feels…
*This was written by a collective out in Oakland who asked us to post it here. – TMOC
Vengeance for Trayvon: A Reportback from Oakland
Written on July 22nd, by a Collective in the Bay Area
“I’m tired of the marchin’, the rallyin’, the protestin’
We hoopin’ and hollerin’, still we gettin’ no justice”
Dead Prez, ‘Made You Die’
In the past week, the city of Oakland, along with the rest of the nation, has been shaken by a series of large protests and small-scale riots in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in Florida. The Oakland Police Department (OPD) and City Hall were largely taken by surprise by the massive outpouring of grief and rage of local residents, and both struggled – as a result of several high-profile court settlements which have forced the OPD to reconfigure its crowd control tactics – to contain…
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Project MUSE – Theory & Event – The Dialectics of Standing One’s Ground
Posted: 2013/07/21 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoGeorge Ciccariello – Maher: “Rather than two abstract and ahistorical subjects confronting one another on the smooth plane of guaranteed Being, Hegel’s Grund, Fanon instead finds himself shouldering the entire weight of history: ‘overdetermined from the outside,’ he is forced to bear the weight of an entire ‘historical-racial schema… woven… out of a thousand details, anecdotes, and stories.'”
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v015/15.3.ciccariello-maher.html
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Video Interview: Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates
Posted: 2013/07/20 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
[Watch new interview on School-to-prison-pipeline]
A landmark study, The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration, recently released by researchers Olesya Baker and Kevin Lang at the National Bureau of Economic Research links exit exams to high rates of incarceration. The study found no positive impact of these tests in terms of employment or wages, but did find a 12.5% increase in incarceration rates for the students who do not pass the test. (For more information about the school-to-prison-pipeline and how to teach about it in the classroom, see the Rethinking Schools issue: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/26_02/edit262.shtml).
The Real News Network interviewed Kevin Lang and myself yesterday about this new study that exposes the machinery of the school-to-prision-pipeline. 
Check it out: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10458
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The New York Times on the politics of dick and the dicks of politics
Posted: 2013/07/19 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoGreg Palast: New York Genitals Fight for Office
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=1141f16e52&e=529d9ad9ce
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