Could we abolish poverty if we didn’t spend so much on public servants?
In the Sydney Morning Herald of 1 June, Julie Novak of the Institute of Public Affairs criticised an article by Gavin Mooney and Alex Wodak,...
Regulatory costs and benefits
There's something of interest in this piece by Cass Sunstein, Obama's chief of regulation (It has become common to call him 'Regulatory Czar' for some reason...
How to encourage social science academics to work on Australian policy?
In recent years, there have been many reforms to the incentive system that social science academics (those in the fields of economics, finance, psychology, management,...
Green taxes: we’re not doing so well
Odd that a country like Oz in which economic reform has been such a buzzword, in which economists have, over the last generation had so...
The Ministry of Truth left the building some decades ago
Almost as depressing as the evident plagiarism in HillBillySkeleton's post-truth politics post is its unremitting, one-eyed left wing bias. The Political Sword is the ideological...
A graphical challenge
When I floated the idea of an infographic wiki the other day I said this. The problem of course is that infographics are created by...