Krugman on Lebanon
A great column by Krugman. Shock and Awe For Americans who care deeply about Israel, one of the truly nightmarish things about the war in...
Could open source be a better way for big pharma?
Big Pharma is in a bind. A big bind. As James Surowiecki explains in this excellent piece there are some really big problems looming for...
Net neutrality (amongst other things I ought to know about)
I went hunting for pieces by one of the worlds really good economic journalists, James Surowiecki of the New Yorker (author of the truly teriffic...
Mars
This is what it looks like. Only it's bigger - even bigger.
The economic possibilities of our grand grand nephews: Edmund Pevensee shock revelations!
I vaguely remember wondering if Skandar Keynes - who played Edmund Pevensee (the bad child who gets saved by the others) - was related when...
Does high employment require high social inequality? Fred Argy
The following opinion piece first appeared in New Matilda. Comments welcome. Many economists are fond of saying that a country can have relatively high employment...
The China effect
An interesting piece by Stephen Koukoulas on the extent to which our inflation numbers are being driven lower than they otherwise would be by the...