Excessive IP isn’t just generally inefficient. It directly harms innovation – the smoking gun
It's pretty obvious that if science involves standing on the shoulders of giants (and the odd pygmy) then exclusive rights to ideas can slow down...
Vietnam: Markets, Capitalism and Mr Smith’s sympathy.
Vietnam is the site of a rapidly emerging and evolving capitalism, something we may as well date to the introduction of Doi Moi (fn1) in...
Whither tax?
Iris Murdoch and her very literary husband John Bayley had a term for going to literary festivals and talking on panels with names like "whither...
Debt, investment and fiscal policy – all fixed (again!)
Yes Troppodillians, you know what I think about this. So you may want to skip it, but I thought it worth putting my oar in...
Inception
I have it under control. I flatter myself I can judge a film from the trailer, but I got it wrong in this case. It...
Update on Popper
Popper is often perceived as an eccentric kind of positivist who adopted a slightly different take on the demarcation of science with the criterion of falsification...
Another attack of lunacy – letter to the NT News
Dear editor I wonder how many of the 84% of NT News respondents who think NT courts are too soft on criminals are aware of...