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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Constraining infrastructure boondoggles
I was reading an article the other day that I can’t now find, by a pollster whose name I can’t remember (increasing age is like that). It dealt with Coalition strategist Mark Textor’s highly successful four part 2010 campaign theme … Continue reading
Posted in Politics - national, regulation
23 Comments
Useable knowledge in the army: The best comment I’ve read in ages
Foreword: I discovered this post – which I’d entirely forgotten about – the other day. It’s a cracker, and because I wrote a comment on it, it’s received some further comments on account of turning up in the ‘recently commented on threads’ list. … Continue reading
Meanwhile while we’re minding our own business here on planet earth . . .
Christopher Monckton feels we could benefit from a few thoughts of his . . .
The double blind sector of the economy
Steve Randy Waldman is onto something in this post. In the previous post, I identified government, health care, education, and finance as the “asymmetric information industry”. Arnold Kling makes an important point: 1nformation asymmetry is that the sellers know what they are … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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John Kay on PPPs (or PFI’s where he comes from)
Tony Blair was a classy politician when it came to the level of political talent he seemed capable of. How sad that like his political counterparts in Australian State Labor governments he and his Chancellor Gordon Brown established the kind … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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