SincDavidson A productivity fix is doomed theaustralian.com.au/business/opini…
Isenberg, Bernstein laud compulsory voting that in AU produces politicans too lazy even to check their eligibility —washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/…Oc
@rodrikdani channels Xi Jinping (based on a claim about welfare gains from innovation that looks dead wrong to me):: washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/…
AU High Court invalidates election of Dep. PM + his party’s 2 IC + 3 senators. Rules were clear. A bunch of dopes!::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
@HenryErgas: the duty of govt is to uphold the rule of law & to foster enterprise::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
… Altho’ not to the exclusion of other explanations, including some learning by central banks (how to do less harm).
@ATabarrok observes the Great Moderation continues but we don’t know why it started. My guess is demographic::..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…mL
“It is not true that accumulation caused the modern Great Enrichment”. McCloskey on the wrongness of Weber::reason.com/archives/2017/…
DuPont, MIT & Harvard to provide free, non-exclusive licenses to CRISPR-CAS9 technologies for agricultural research::broadinstitute.org/news/dupont-pi…
WTO settles into its role as tour operator. Cuts to farm subsidies & agri. tariffs no longer threaten the party in Buenos Aires in December.
“Making the Federation work better would be useful but…” [governments prefer to hide behind this ramshackle mess]theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…St
@SincDavidson @Innov_Aus “[Govt must] accept in a world of ubiquitous cryptography that there are many things… it..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…UX
Billions blown on Turnbull’s foolish idea-bubbles (local-content subs, pumped-hydro, the NBN “never-work”):: theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Productivity Commission found no evidence bags pollute, kill marine life or clog land-fill. They’re among MOST RECY..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…jj
The ACCC report on energy markets an indictment of AU federalism. Return tax powers to States; make them answer for their endless screwups.
The 30-50% rise in AU power prices since 2007 is due to gov’t screw-ups on competition, coal & “CO2 abatement”:: accc.gov.au/media-release/…
These Thaler “Anomalies” articles (especially the earlier) look like lotsa fun:: aeaweb.org/journals/jep/s…
In their hearts, some Western governments, too, want what the CPC wants: to hold all the levers:: wsj.com/articles/beiji…
@holland_tom Except, you know… the Romans, at least, were syncretist — sort of “tolerant” — and also built stuff, not just tore it down.
EU adds more “think-of-a -number” B-S. accounting to its A/D regs. Now with Added Virtue-Signalling (via @snlester)::worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2017/…
Vector pups:”14 people are Petland employees…35 people either recently purchased a puppy… visited a Petland, orcdc.gov/campylobacter/…9PjJAs
Here’s a scrap of an essay that pretends to find the (tragic/comic) meaning of “Don Juan” in the first line!::..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…uv
”..economics cannot be taught to 19-year olds… [they] are romantics”. Yet DM is more romantic the older she gets::deirdremccloskey.com/docs/graham/na…
@eashimp @snlester Next month?! Seems there’s still some un-ravelling and re-ravelling to do. Plenty of opportuniti..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…IN
I voted ‘no’. I endorse tolerance of adult prefrence. But government has no business meddling with a prior (socially superior) institution.
A ‘balanced’ report of crass rent-seeking like this (#Whirlpool has lotsa bad company) gives it too much credit::wsj.com/articles/whirl…
snlester Today we moved down the continuum from free trade towards protectionism. twitter.com/JunckerEU/stat…
SincDavidson We lose as Pearson leaves theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Find ‘emoticons’ ugly? A-scriptive? In 1966 Hervé Bazin (satirically) proposed emotive punctuation::..twitter.com/i/web/status/9…yt
#MH370 disappearance: “Why would such data.. be created for such a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean?”::blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2…