Troppo motto contest
You may notice that I have changed the masthead motto, which until now read "the suppository of centrist wisdom since 2012". It was a somewhat...
Paul Krugman the academic, Martin Wolf the economic journalist: Bottom line – read Wolf’s great new book
I'm a big, though not uncritical admirer of Paul Krugman - of his straightforwardness and his aggression in what is almost always a worthy cause....
Adam Smith on managerialism
The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors....
How the aged crowd out the young, and how it’s inefficient
This paper is pretty interesting. The last generation has seen the triumph of the baby boomers in attracting resources to themselves, at the cost of...
Managers wresting control from owners: it’s nothing new …
Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of Corporate Control in Britain, 1862 to 1929 by Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux - #20481 (DAE)...
Public private partnerships to build the digital public goods of the 21st century
Below the fold is the Ockham's Razor lecture that went to air yesterday. Since the trolls have already come out in force on the ABC thread (The...
Ray Monk Lecture at 6.00 pm tonight: Go if you can
As a council member of the National Library I had the privilege of not only going to this lecture last Friday night but of having dinner with...