What, me blogging?
Old time Troppo readers who actually liked my stuff can get their fill at my new blog here. (Blogger is a really sound platform these...
Sydney pub night 9 Oct
Nicholas Gruen is coming to town next weekend, Sunday Oct 9. It is a long way from home so he might appreciate some convivial company....
A tax on people we don’t like
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I find the Australia Institute's latest effort (pdf) particularly irksome. It uses data from Roy Morgan...
Homo Dialecticus Part Three: Why Adam Smith thinks markets are conducive to virtue
The story in the two posts so far in which some foreshadowing of what's to come is snuck in. Smith's great work in sociology and...
Interpersonal comparisons of welfare – and another go on income redistribution
Here's a favourite economic journalist - Samuel Brittain - dispatching the idea that economics shouldn't make interpersonal comparisons of welfare. He's spent most of the...
House prices
As readers of an earlier post will know, I've become interested in the arguments that suggest that greater deregulation of land usage could improve land...
A couple more links on our friends across the Tasman
Crikey outlines how much more engagement there is in political campaigning over there. And Tim Colebatch says some things that are similar to my own...