2003: Tom Friedman takes his fatuity for a power-walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZwFaSpca_3Q
Evening up rights: the rough with the smooth …
Suicide and Property Rights in India by Siwan Anderson, Garance Genicot - #19978 (DEV) This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates...
The singularity: which jobs will go?
Pretty interesting paper (pdf). The abstract: We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability...
Is the world better off with a Bigger Australia, or with more Australians?
Michael Fullilove, of the Lowy Institute, last week gave a speech espousing the established (non-radical) centrist view that more immigration to Australia is highly desirable -...
Lord Salisbury’s Lessons for Great Powers
The noise and drama surrounding Putin, Russia and the Ukraine obscure crucial foreign policy principles. In "Lord Salisbury's Lessons for Great Powers", Robert Merry takes...
Edicts from on high II: ethics committee edition
https://youtu.be/-9q-sMsXLHs I was bemoaning ethics committees to someone the other day and they told me of this case in which Australian Hospitals refused a patient - a nurse...
Sakura Tsukamasa-Green: 2013-2013
One year ago our daughter died and was born. We called her Sakura, for the cherry blossom. Sakura is a thing of beauty that does...