Immigration and the neoliberal imagination
Why "shouldn’t we look forward to a freer, more egalitarian world of tomorrow in which people are allowed to live where they want?" asks Matt...
Missing Link Friday – It’s Craig Thomson free!
Beer: Who has the best beer? Chris Bertram isn't sure ... but it's not the Welsh. The fatosphere: Fat acceptance blogs can improve health outcomes...
Thoughts on Manning Clark on reading Mark McKenna’s new biography
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="470" caption="Manning and and Dymphna on the veranda of their house at Wapengo on the NSW South Coast"][/caption] Inside Story has just...
Insights from the coaching bench
Mick Malthouse, "latter optionist" and coach of Collingwood Football Club had some insights to share with club tragics such as me in his latest video. Regarding the...
Perhaps the penny is beginning to drop: Our IP system is a nightmare
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption=" Prize-winning nature and wildlife photographer, paleontological impressario, molecular gourmet and Dark Lord of IP trolling: Nathan Myhrvold, Founder of Intellectual Ventures"][/caption] The...
Dutch Disease, Hollowing Out and Picking Survivors
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Courtesy of the RBA"][/caption] In my first year of university, in one of the earliest classes, we were shown a graph...
Will the resource curse stifle democracy in Libya?
(note to self) Just a week ago, the betting markets still gave Gaddafi a 40% chance of remaining in charge till the end of the...