Amateur Hour with John Quiggin and Dan Hunter
John Quiggin and Dan Hunter have written a very interesting survey article on Web 2.0. They characterise the new innovation on the web as the...
Equality in the Age of Human Capital
Three quarters of America's wealth is invested in its people, writes Gary Becker. He argues that while physical capital is still matters, human capital now...
Cane toads and shockjocks
Nicholas Gruen's post a couple of days ago on American RWDB shockjock Bill O'Reilly's dummy spit has got me thinking. Why haven't local TV programmers inflicted...
TroppoSphere update
I've added a new Australian sports blogs category to TroppoSphere, with lots of great feeds kindly identified by Guido (whose new blog is one of...
Burma donations tally
Many thanks to the readers who responded to our joint Burma campaign with John Quiggin by donating to aid agencies assisting the victims of Cyclone...
The tragedy of the thicket of proprietary rights
You've heard of the tragedy of the commons and if not you can look it up here. But as the public commons burgeons on the...