I wasn’t too sure about buying the Martin Wolf book (as it is no longer the area I’m working in), but with a great quote like this in an A&A I’m going to have to buy it: Martin Wolf on humility and economics, from a Q&A at Vox about his new book (http://t.co/s5Z2brNauU)… pic.twitter.com/kvKHpYnhBs — […]
After everything going haywire for a while it has all gone quiet, and generally we are supposed to remain mute on party preference and party politics until 7pm tonight. That has lead Imperator Fish to go on a journey of arbitrary things (one, two, three, four). I’m going to stick to election related points that […]
I have seen a lot of talk about the “vote buses” running around, and I’ve been wondering – do they really make much difference? Is it a prisoner’s dilemma (more a zero sum game) where parties have to spend money on the bus tour if the other party is to keep their vote the same, […]
This election hurts my head, so I thought I’d note down some of the strange thoughts it is giving me. View this as no more than the ramblings of someone who hasn’t had enough sleep. I was talking to my Mum yesterday, and we were both surprised with Laila Harre being involved in the Internet Party […]
I don’t like to talk politics, and I don’t like to “pick” parties. I don’t like the arguments that cause more heat than light, and I genuinely think that the vast majority of the people in parliament are good people – so the attacks on these people that occur just upset me. Last Friday when […]
Today just a quote from someone I was talking to: I used to think I hated just economists due to their arrogance, the arrogance of knowing about the social and economic world. It turns out I hate everyone as, as everyone seems to believe they know how the world works and how to fix it. […]