Abbott’s hypocrisy on asylum seekers
The Coalition is engaged in further hypocrisy. 1. The Coalition (both under Howard and more recently through Morrison’s own words) has supported Nairu as an...
How to respond to Abbott
On all recent polls, it appears that the Coalition is still unbeatable. But Newspoll suggests that Abbott’s leadership of the Liberal party is viewed with...
Gillard’s broken promise
Gillard is still the best person to lead the ALP (there is no one else). How deal with the loss of trust following her broken...
Economic Growth v/s distribution
In the USA (a presidential election year), there is a considerable debate on how much emphasis government policy should assign to economic growth (properly interpreted...
Politics of economic reform
Now that my days of writing and blogging are over, I am spending my time reading books. I have almost finished reading John Howard’s book...
Relationship between wages and employment
Paul Krugman looks again at the relationship between deficit reduction, wages and employment in the USA. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/wages-and-employment-yet-again/ Yglesais says that a decline in deficit could...
How welfare impacts on the poor
Attached is a post by James Kwak. It strongly rejects a comment by Caplan and Beaulier that Behavioral Economics will Undermine the welfare state by...