RT @insteconomics: David Uren writes up my forthcoming Cato Institute paper on The G20 and Global Governance https://t.co/nCOr81kvyy
Trade negotiations are discovery. When it finally takes shape, original design may be useless or wrong. Sometimes you need to start again.
Meh! Show me a trade negotiation that hasn’t “failed†at some point and I’ll show you one that probably should have. https://t.co/stTUbrZVCi
Still, after B’s death, Hobhouse (later Baron Broughton) showed more concern for his own “fame†than Byron’s legacy. https://t.co/2OQfCXTlcQ
DARPA will fund “explainable artificial intelligenceâ€: AI that explains how it learns. A kind of self-awareness?::https://t.co/SMabuTbN6A
Cost of barring CHN FDI in AUSGRID: “New investment and technology transfer from the biggest utility in the world…â€::https://t.co/Y5q98A2sNP
@JPTrachtman @rodrikdani @JosephEStiglitz @snlester mostly agree. Still “prem. de-indust’n†may be a thing. DR a smart/naive contrarian.
In 1990s I helped Vic dairy farmers pull-down national regult’d milk-price. $bn quota buy-outs. Never let govt. back into dairy pricing!
No doubt MurrayGoulburn coop screwed-up its pricing strategy (w/ farmer shareholders) but govt has no role setting prices, bullying firms.
Turnbull rhymes “Australia†with “Venezuelaâ€: govt will not allow “poor business decisions… to erode the dairy indyâ€:https://t.co/nggwFXUYcn
I wrote my MP (@timwilsoncomau) lamenting Turnbull’s attack on banks over prices. I asked who would be next? Dairy? Supermarkets? …One down…
Turnbull bullies another company on prices: co-op OWNED by the businesses complaining. Who is more feckless: shareholders or Prime Minister?
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@tylercowen “…the message seems to be that not going nuclear was an even bigger mistake than we had been thinking“::https://t.co/HnFU710Lby
Proof that iPhones cost too much? Still, oil prices and promised trade, investment protection will stop this slide. https://t.co/CXfq0evTTa
Not the first (or last) attempt to make foreigners wear the consequences of poor US econ. pol. choices #brettonwoods https://t.co/6L7HZFwZ3B
aus_business Australia is no longer open for business, writes @GlendaKorporaal bit.ly/2aQbulc pic.twitter.com/2O5tngGlMQ
Many HKG, SGP, MSY, CHN firms supply capital, tech, infrastructure in AU. Treasurer’s interference will hurt us::https://t.co/sJczj3rsjG
“Australia seems to be making up its foreign-investment policy on the run†Populist (& worse), high-handed, obscure::https://t.co/q7MylzG4Fb
Fashion_Museum Light brown silk pelisse worn by Lady Byron (Arabella Millbanke) on her wedding day in 1815 pic.twitter.com/0qbVfajemU
Rather than haul banks before Parlt. for refusing to pass on official rate cuts, govt. shd increase bank competition:https://t.co/Omu2YJPVDe
How long (Oh Lord, how long?) before the NYT editors understand that we got it: they’re zealously anti-Trump? Now can we have actual news?
@snlester Thanks. Have long thought the “optimum tariff†story was the “string theory†of trade. Possibly elegant, certainly irrelevant.
Oops… Should be ‘Staiger’. Apologies.
Um… sorry. Don’t recognize any of Bagwell & Steiger’s “purposesâ€. Guess they must be cleverly disguised… ? https://t.co/PwjlhjFZkd
The elites’ scorn for the “ignorant masses†of #leave has a 19th century precedent in condemnation of the Chartists::https://t.co/WGUdey0AZ5
“Market-failure“? If only! Health’s burdens, rather, are govt. failure & the self-interested jabber of rent-seekers::https://t.co/pYt4a1MXMf
“Great openness requires greater governments†Discuss… expanding, refining “greaterâ€. https://t.co/seiEAJXZl0
“If they decide not to pass on an interest rate cut they’re going to have to front up to (Parlt.) and explain…†https://t.co/J9ceVOkAXB
RT @SimonEvenett: For my acct of the catalogue of failure that has been the governance of the world trading system in 21st century C https…