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		<title>Bad Politics and Good Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can we distinguish good politics from bad politics? One could do it formally or procedurally and one could do it substantially or from the point of view of the content. The formal part is easy. One can most often determine whether or not some given formal requirements have been fulfilled or not, if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fundamentally unjust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our world is fundamentally unjust in so many ways. Take justice itself: It seems not even worth questioning that most people engaged in some kind of public work (politics, business etc.) will recognize (with Machiavelli, Glaucon and others) the necessity of appearing to be „just“ i.e. appearing to respect (as a matter of moral choice) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/04/30/the-fundamentally-unjust/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-fundamentally-unjust</link>
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		<title>Global Institutional Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Pogge argues that the sum needed for a serious offensive against poverty on a global scale is relatively small (300 billion USD). Yet too large for it to be realistic to raise the money in the traditional way by appealing to affluent donors, moral sensitivity etc. In other words it is an easy task [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/04/23/global-institutional-reform/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=global-institutional-reform</link>
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		<title>Success as beginning and as end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One would tend to think about any political agenda that it is, if it brings success, a beginning, rather than the end of something. Or, if it is a beginning, that it is not also the end. In Iceland, this is different. Here success of a program or initiative, seems to be seal its death. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/04/20/success-as-beginning-and-as-end/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=success-as-beginning-and-as-end</link>
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		<title>Petersburg Iceland Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article in Konsul 1 (24) is a more or less accurate description of my talk in St. Petersburg 14 March.]]></description>
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		<title>Stoic on wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoting the Romans always sounds a little affected, but &#8220;primus habere quod necesse est, proximus quod sat est&#8221; (Seneca Letters I,2) is too striking not to repeat it. Its form expresses what it says even better than its content. The limit to wealth is not hard to see: necessity and sufficiency. To be wealthy is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Crowds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We know very well that a group of people may show more competence than the best single person in that group. Therefore collective decisionmaking makes perfect sense and a democratic decision may bring out a better solution than any single person could. Using this criterion for the collective decision of Icelanders to reject the Icesave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/04/11/the-wisdom-of-crowds/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-wisdom-of-crowds</link>
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		<title>Putinesque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a man standing close to the door when I enter the train at Aeroport metro station heading downtown. He might be coming from Sokol or even all the way from Rechnoi Vokzal. He is not tall but well built. Broad shoulders, thinning light hair. His features are manly. He is reading a magazine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/03/25/putinesque/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=putinesque</link>
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		<title>Brim &#8211; Undercurrent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The selection of films available from the back of the seat in front of you tends to shape the expectations you have about each film (rather than for example whether some of them won the Icelandic EDDA award). Maybe that is why Brim was such a nice surprise. Is it a noir? (I always seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jonolafs.is/2011/03/06/brim-undercurrent/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=brim-undercurrent</link>
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		<title>The King of Kleifarvatn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The area around Kleifarvatn is eerie this time of the year and maybe it always is, at any time of the year. The lake, partly dried out, yet still there, very very quiet. Except for the pieces of ice forming a broad band along the shores and rattling like icecubes in a big half-filled glass [...]]]></description>
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