Shopping for Christmas? New books from artist and author Kilmeny Niland. Other artworks from the same source – portraits, miniatures, haiga, wildlife, cards.

A prolific source of links on every topic under the sun. Australiana, war, the US, queer issues, etc.

Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets on the downside of academic blogging, with a cameo appearance by John Quiggin.

Andrew Norton on higher education narratives. Education versus the bottom line.

Peter Boettke looking for a way between historicism and scientism.

Maybe you all knew this, but I didn’t until recently, Andrew Leigh, star of interanational economics blogs , has quit for the time being due to a change of work.