There has been talk of the US performing a “stocktake” of free trade agreements – a stocktake that will likely end with New Zealand still being stung by quotas and tariffs when American citizens and New Zealand citizens want to trade. This does not seem consistent with the platform of change that President Obama promised, […]
Title: Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets (Amazon) Authour: Walter B. Wriston Publisher: Hoover Institution Press (*) Score: 5/10 The book “Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets” aims to provide some flavour surrounding technologies role in changing the economic environment, and related institutions (including government) – namely through its impact on information dissemination. However, there is also […]
As said, the economist magazine says legalize drugs (ht Carpe Diem). This isn’t a big issue to me personally – relative to what I see as “big issues” like the current recession. However, I can definitely see some good in legalizing (and taxing) drugs (something we were discussing here). For some reason though, it is […]
Offsetting behaviour by Eric Crampton (ht Anti-Dismal). Already there is a set of post on policy ignorance up. Here is a quote from here: Political ignorance then is ignorance about how the political system works in general rather than necessarily ignorance about any specific policy issue I can tell you’re interested, go give it a […]
In a comment to a post on Anti-Dismal about a post on the Standard, which I have also commented on here, Clinton Smith said: If you think that macroeconomics is the same as microeconomics because of where the word economics comes from, you’ve got a long way to come. I thought I should lay down […]
I am still too dazed and confused to provide even a blog level of debate. As a result, here is a comic (ht SMBC):