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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Edward Banfield</title>
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		<title>Doing Business vs. Righteous Indignation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/doing-business-vs-righteous-indignation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In moving from smoke-filled rooms to talk-filled rooms, our modern political system, Edward Banfield says, has become less effective in finding the terms on which people can act together and live together in peace: The upper-class ideal recommends participation as intrinsically good, but unfortunately, the more participants there are, the larger the number of issues [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Always Have Something to Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our modern political system, Edward Banfield says, the politician, like the TV news commentator, must always have something to say — even when nothing urgently needs to be said: If he lived in a society without problems, he would have to invent some (and of course &#8220;solutions&#8221; along with them) in order to attract [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulated by Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle-class-ification has made public opinion more perverse, Edward Banfield argues, and more important: Half a century or more ago, the basis of city and state political power — and therefore, to a large extent, of national political power as well — was the machine. The bosses who ran it kept themselves in power by dispensing [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Chance to Flex Their Moral Muscles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Banfield explains how reasonable policy suggestions get dismissed as unacceptable, even repellent, because they do not seem morally improving: It does not appear to be improving to a youth to send him to work rather than to school, especially as this is what is in one&#8217;s interest as a taxpayer to do. It does not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Public Opinion Is Perverse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Banfield explains why public opinion is perverse: An answer sometimes given is that in matters such as these it is generally dominated by the opinion of the well-educated and well-off. These people (so the argument runs) are indifferent to or downright hostile to the interest of the less well-off and the poor. In short, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Immigrants versus Russian Jews</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/irish-immigrants-versus-russian-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Banfield draws a distinction between the poor and the lower-class. The poor lack wealth. The lower-class lack patience &#8212; they seek instant gratification. This explains mortality rates in the 19th century: Probably the lower-class poor died from want more often than did the other poor; certainly they died more often from syphilis, excessive drinking, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unintended Effects of Middle-Class-Ification</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974), Edward Banfield discusses the &#8220;race&#8221; riots of the 1960s, and he makes the point that the lower classes were no longer tied to the institutions that used to restrain them: Racial discrimination, although obviously a factor, is not the main thing that cuts them off from these institutions; rather, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Commuting Before Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until fairly recently, everyone commuted by foot, and real estate in the center of the city was quite desirable. Early commuting technologies didn&#8217;t quite change that: In the 1830s the large cities — New York, Boston, and Philadelphia — saw the introduction of omnibuses which were usually drawn by two horses and carried twelve to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenantry Comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1857 a select committee of the state legislature described the forces that were shaping New York: As our wharves became crowded with warehouses, and encompassed with bustle and noise, the wealthier citizens, who peopled old &#8220;Knickerbocker&#8221; mansions, near the bay, transferred their residence to streets beyond the din; compensating for remoteness from the counting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Our urban problems are like the mechanical rabbit at the racetrack</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/our-urban-problems-are-like-the-mechanical-rabbit-at-the-racetrack/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/07/our-urban-problems-are-like-the-mechanical-rabbit-at-the-racetrack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our urban problems are like the mechanical rabbit at the racetrack, Edward Banfield says, which is set to keep just ahead of the dogs no matter how fast they may run: Consider the poverty problem, for example. Irving Kristol has pointed out that for nearly a century all studies, in all countries, have concluded that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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