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The virtues and risks of fiscal packages

Fred Argy
November 27, 2008
There are currently three schools of thought on how best to address the current global crisis. One takes the view that it is all due...
Music

Good-bye, Richard

James Farrell
November 26, 2008November 27, 2008
Richard Hickox, 1948-2008 Another case of not appreciating something fully until you've lost it. I never met him, but spent many happy hours within metres...
Economics and public policy

Why oh why: Srange things governments do – edition # 724

Nicholas Gruen
November 25, 2008November 26, 2008
This is a letter written by the ATO. Someone sent it to me.  The letter is not addressed to me.  I'm not joking or making...
Economics and public policy Geeky Musings

Austrian economics in ten points

Tony Harris
November 25, 2008November 25, 2008
Peter Boettke has written a piece to introduce the main elements of Austrian economics in ten points. The Science of Economics Proposition 1: Only individuals...
Economics and public policy IT and Internet Law

Free riding on free riders will no longer be free

Nicholas Gruen
November 24, 2008
Free riding is the engine of productivity growth. People see something and copy it. Clothes, business methods, recipes. But there are also things that deliberately...
Economics and public policy

Deficits

Fred Argy
November 24, 2008
A special question was inserted in the latest Newspoll. It found that 56% of voters would be concerned if the federal budget were to go...
Political theory

Freedom’s just another word for … ?

Don Arthur
November 23, 2008November 23, 2008
When Hunter S. Thompson returned to Louisville in the early 1960s, he found a city proud of its progress on race relations. "Racial segregation has...

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