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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Bailing out British Leyland – The Iron Lady’s feet of clay
British Leyland devoured billions pounds of taxpayer’s money before it was finally broken up and sold off. According to New York Times journalist Nelson Schwartz the Thatcher government’s bailout "remains the classic example of a futile government intervention." Mrs Thatcher … Continue reading
Posted in Politics - international
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Steve Jobs, Friedrich Hayek and Design: the column
(Four minutes of extracts from a 27 minute video which can be watched here.) Herewith my column for the SMH and Age in Ross Gittins’ spot while he’s on vacation. It’s the column of the essay which is here. As … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Innovation
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Another immortal game
White to play Vidmar vs Euwe 34. ? See game for solution. As Troppodillians know my definition of an immortal game is one that involves some serious sacrificing and that the only pieces of the winners side that are left on … Continue reading
Posted in Chess
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A yawning gap opening up between Australia and NZ
I wouldn’t be expecting the New Zealand economy starts catching up to Australia any time soon. While they have their usual ideological stoushes there’s something that sticks out like a ham sandwich at a bar-mitzvah. NZ is capital starved. Owing … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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Missing Link Friday – Left-wing Paulbots, the Great Gatsby curve and the politics of evil technologies
The Jericho amendments: At Grog’s Gamut Greg Jericho checks out the Australian Public Service Commission’s new guidelines for public servants engaging in public comment. Some of the principles are "so obvious or dumb as could only be written by a … Continue reading
Posted in Missing Link
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Escaping fortress Australia in the world of ideas
The way the world of copyright is set up to gouge each individual market separately is growing costlier and costlier particularly for small far away markets like our own. I’d love to buy an Amazon Kindle Fire and subscribe to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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