Monthly Archives: April 2008

The growing risk of recession: what can be done to prevent it?

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Fred Argy

The Canberra Times published today an opinion piece of mine on a topic I have been writing about since late November and is familiar to Club Troppo readers. My original version is set out below. For various reasons, I may … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Politics - national | 32 Comments

Missing Link Daily

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Ken Parish

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Worst of Perth sculpts former WA Premier Geoff Gallop … Continue reading →

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 7 Comments

Statistics in school

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

I was listening to a podcast of a BBC interview with Ian “Supercrunchers” Ayres. Supercrunchers is a book which illustrates all the ways in which the ‘new econometrics’ or ‘social stats’ is revolutionising – well lets not get carried away … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Education | 12 Comments

A gotcha in WordPress 2.5.1

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Jacques Chester

The updated copy of TinyMCE embedded in WordPress 2.5 has bog ordinary indent and outdent buttons, of this approximate appearance: . This button essentially just adds a few extra tags in the HTML that say “push this over to the right … Continue reading →

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Missing Link Daily

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Ken Parish

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian   Mark Shorter’s upcoming performance at MOP projects explores patriarchal … Continue reading →

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 3 Comments

Doing well by doing good

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Nicholas Gruen

I have about three draft posts, all unfinished on a particular theme which I have touched on once before here. The general theme is the growing viability of doing well by doing good. One of the posts was called Googlenomics … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Education, Life, Philosophy | 9 Comments

Missing Link Daily

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Ken Parish

A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The new Political Compass per Gummo Trotsky Kev Gillett believes … Continue reading →

Posted in Missing Link, Uncategorised | 20 Comments