What is a ‘policy hack’?
Cross-posted from The Mandarin. I Since I used the term ‘policy hack’ in my presentation “What economic reform thinking might look like if we’d bothered...
We’re giving people Australia Day honours for doing their jobs
[caption id="attachment_32663" align="alignleft" width="3411"] Verily this is a very nice looking AC. Made of gold I believe and sitting on maroon velvet. It's got wattle...
The logic of the inevitable (nuclear) apocalypse. Can the Gods save us?
The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan,...
Productivity Commission super report: Apply the Medicare approach to super
Today's Fin Review column What would Abraham Lincoln think of the Productivity Commission’s report into Australia’s super system? A funny question I know, but amongst...
“SMSF regulation is appropriate” Productivity Commission SHOCK you won’t believe!!
Yes folks, the PC's Final Report on Super tells us that the regulation of self managed super funds (SMSFs) is "appropriate" and plumps for more...
Why I’m not reading Steven Pinker’s latest
I'm afraid this post won't live up to the title above. It has its genesis in a long email I wrote someone who told me I just...
To overcome commonsense, and at the same time, to be wrong
As Orwell put it “there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” At least in economics one of the things that...