Anecdote of the week
From this site, via Kathy G, regarding Charlie Chaplin. They were dreadfully poor. Charlie's parents were third-string strolling players. His father died early of alcoholism;...
Stimulating energy innovation
Toyota Prius - not as green as it seems, but the forthcoming "plug-in" one might be If there's a certain bet flowing from last weekend's Gippsland...
Hayek and innovation
In an interesting post a day or so ago Ken Parish made this claim, which went largely unchallenged (though I've not read all the comments)....
Some more on those ‘ecological’ public goods
With the departure of Andrew Leigh from the blogosphere and from the AFR, the AFR have asked me to step into his outsize shoes. So...
Missing Link’s mid-year holiday
Gummo is sick, Amanda doesn't have computer access at the moment, Jen is under the hammer to finish assignments for her Masters, and I'm not...