Ken Henry and conspiracy theories
I paid a visit to Catallaxy earlier today after my Google reader informed me that Rafe Champion had awarded me and Jason Soon something called...
The Amazon future works
The ABC's Australia Talks program ran a show this week about the troubles of the Australian book industry. Its starting point was that the local...
‘Does the hierarchy of needs’ need revisiting?
This made me laugh
Missing Link Friday – politics and violence
White Ribbon Day: "In an afternoon in Montreal on December 6th 1989, a man massacred 14 of his female classmates. From this horrific action, a...
Economists as engineers and humbler, better scientists
Here's a paragraph I wrote about fifteen years ago. The culture of economic expertise places inadequate weight on integrating insights from multiple perspectives, that it...
Environmental damage: mining versus farming
Adelaide's "Festival of Ideas" last month featured a useful discussion of the mining industry's contribution to the economy, since replayed on the ABC program The...
The ethics of the second oldest profession
The ethics of the second oldest profession - new post by me at CDU Law and Business Online.