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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Troppo Migration, take 2
I’m going to make a second attempt to migrate Troppo to the new server this weekend. I have two alternative strategies to look at. One involves chopping bits out of WordPress that prevent the export/import system from working in the … Continue reading
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Ultralight bleg II
Two years ago I posted a bleg asking for tips on buying an ultralight laptop. I ended up getting an ASUS U2e which has not been particularly good. Anyway, it may have been Vista that was the problem but it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blegs, IT and Internet
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Race calling – don’t you hate it?
A nice piece on how political coverage gets sucked onto the nihilism of race-calling. HT Brad Delong: George Packer: The Top of Our Game: David Broder had a devastatingly unremarkable assessment of Sarah Palin in the Post the other day. Her … Continue reading
Posted in Media
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The Origins of Homo Economicus
The New Yorker has just produced this profile of Paul Krugman. In it we read the following passage. It isnt that freshwater types believe that actual people are perfectly rationalthey just believe that making that assumption enables a more rigorous … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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Our debt problems
It is surely elementary that the collapse of the financial system in 2008 caused a huge downturn in private debt and that public debt was forced to get into the act to help prop up demand. If one combines the … Continue reading
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Recent trends in labour market
In December 2009, the official ABS Labour Price Index was running at about 3% per annum. This represents a continued trend decline in private sector wage rates (although less so for the public sector). Wage rates refect the subdued labour … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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