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Im going to look a right idiot if I was first steered to 3 Quarks Daily by someone here on Club Troppo. Still, its good enough to take the risk. The site describes its mission as . . . . present[ing] interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of scien...

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Australia may be lucky and sail through the boisterous economic seas without any significant impact on unemployment. However, while we may have seen the worst of the credit crisis, I would rate this outcome as only a 1/3 probability. Allowing for the delayed impact of earlier...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian The Budget It's Wayne Swan's first but it's Andrew Bartlett's eleventh . Robert Merkel...

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Several readers have sent money to Burma's monks, via Avaaz . This is a progress report on Club Troppo's joint campain with John Quiggin to inspire reader donations to organisations assisting the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. As John announced in an update yesterday, 'do...

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You may not know it but around 20% of the home loan market has just collapsed - the securitisation market. The banks are moving into the space and and, as a result, rationing credit elsewhere. Below the fold is an op ed in the Age about it. It introduces a theme you'll probabl...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian From Jeff at Rigorous Intuition . Like a fat kid eyeing off a doughnut, the inevitable...

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TroppoSphere TroppoSphere is a project I've been working on for quite a long while on and off. It's intended as a feed reader for people who don't want to use a feed reader! A gateway to a world of news and expert opinion and analysis for those with feedreader phobia. I suspec...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian From Terry Sedgwick . It's a bit like the armadillo book that gave rise to the original...

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"If everyone had enough, it would be of no moral consequence whether some had more than others", says Harry Frankfurt . Skepticlawyer agrees. In a recent post on 'progressive fusionism' she suggests combining Frankfurt's 'doctrine of sufficiency' with Amartya Sen's capabilitie...

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The Australian reports breathlessly that Lindsay Tanner can't guarantee that no working families will be worse off, nor that interest rates won't rise in the future. Nor can Malcolm Turnbull, or Kevin Rudd or anyone else. Or to put it more fully, they can't but if they did the...

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If you'll allow me my fancy, it occured to me that, mutatis mutandis , Edmund Burke might have been contrasting the slow cumulative progress of TQM or the Toyota Production System nicely written up by James Suroweki here , with more 'dynamic' (and often less successful) method...

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If you've been round bureaucracy for any length of time (and yes, folks, this includes anyone in the private, public or 'third' sector working for an organisation of any size) you'll know how hard it is to get good ideas up from the bottom to the top. Toyota built its dominanc...

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I haven't paid much attention to Telstra's participation in the public policy debate. It usually manages to get itself seen in a fairly poor light at least if one is not paying much attention as I haven't been. Even so, I've just read this speech by Phil Burgess (pdf), and I'm...

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With tens of thousands dead ( possibly a hundred thousand ) and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, the disaster in Myanmar is approaching the scale of the December 2004 tsunami. The difference is that it's confined to one extremely poor country with particularly poor in...

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I've been puzzling about international humanitarian interventions lately, in part because my daughter Bec is in the middle of a uni assignment on the subject, but mostly because as I write this Robert Mugabe continues to terrorise and impoverish his own people in Zimbabwe whil...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Apathetic Sarah takes Julie Bishop's latest pronouncement to its logical conclusion App...

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I was going on about the renewed importance of public goods to the Review Panel on the Innovation System and so they asked me and another economists on the panel to do a bit of a write up for them. For various logistical reasons, the ultimate document was run up by me the nigh...

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Cute site .

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As many of you know, I'm usually around Troppo for Missing Link purposes, and it's Missing Link that can take a great deal of the credit for Legal Eagle and I heading off on a new joint blogging venture . Jacques Chester - Troppo's redoubtable blog admin - can also take a bunc...

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A digest of the best of the blogosphere published each weekday and compiled by Ken Parish, gilmae, Gummo Trotsky, Amanda Rose, Tim Sterne, Jen McCulloch and Stephen Hill Politics Australian Holbein sketch of Lady Guildford (via Scarlett W Blue ) Apathetic Sarah notes that Quee...

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