Weekly Top 5 Papers – July 8, 2011

1. The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons: Culture Conflict, Rationality Conflict, and Climate Change
by Dan M. Kahan (Yale University – Law School; Harvard Law School) and Maggie Wittlin (Yale University – Law School) and Ellen Peters (Psychology Department; Decision Research; University of Oregon) and Paul Slovic (Decision Research; University of Oregon – Department of Psychology) and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Yale University – Law School) and Donald Braman (Cultural Cognition Project; George Washington University – Law School) and Gregory N. Mandel (Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law)

2. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan T. Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

3. Divine Operating System
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University of Tennessee College of Law)

4. Train Wrecks, Budget Deficits, and the Entitlements Explosion: Exploring the Implications of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Public Debt Clause
by Michael Abramowicz (George Washington University Law School)

5. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

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