A bit of Government 2.0 from Muammar Gaddafi
This Internet, which any demented person, any drunk can get drunk and write in, do you believe it? The Internet is like a vacuum cleaner,...
“It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others”
Having just watched Q&A on the republic (looking for my daughter who'd got herself into the audience!), I was intrigued by the post I've replicated...
Hayek vs Keynes, Round 2
Here it is folks, courtesy of Cafe Hayek.
US supreme court overtaken by right wing bots
Ken's last post seeks to crowdsource ideas for teaching law students some of their cognitive biases. I'd been contemplating on posting on something I'd...
“Financial planning” – a sales force masquerades as a profession
A bunch of new rules are being introduced to Parliament today governing what is usually called the "financial planning" industry. Big new regulatory schemes often have large...
Rooting out Cognitive Bias 101
Nicholas Gruen's post about Einstellung (a person's predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though there are "better" or more appropriate...
Forecasting from nowcasting . . .
Speaking of $100 bills on the pavement, I haven't looked into this - but look forward to doing so at some stage. Given the preponderance...