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Scott Adams on Fairness 26 Aug 2013 | 05:49 pm
The other day, I seem to have upset lots of people by claiming that fairness is a poor grounds for debate unlike productivity. My evidence for that was the question over whether the Coalition’s Paid ...
Is the Coalition’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme fair? 25 Aug 2013 | 07:31 am
Fairness is an awful word to use in debates. Scott Adams once called it the word that allows morons to participate in arguments. Children learn that one pretty early. But Labor started it by calling ...
My Thoughts and your predictions on Egypt. 21 Aug 2013 | 07:31 am
The tragic situation in Egypt is so complex and unpredictable that one can find many opinions on what various groups and people in Egypt should do, but precious few predictions by ‘experts’ on what is...
Guest post by Philip Clarke on the price of medicines 20 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
As you may know over the last few years I have been arguing for a reduction in the price of common generic medications in Australia. Due to policy shortcomings, Australia currently pays some of the hi...
Your policy ideas for the next government? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:37 am
With the next Australian election only a few weeks away, now is a good time to say which economic micro and macro policies you think a next government can/should implement. Around and in between past...
Hurt and truth 15 Aug 2013 | 08:02 am
One of the more odd rules of social interaction is that the person in pain gets to own the truth and those without pain adjust. Think for instance about the words used to describe undesired traits tha...
Where are the out-of-wedlock Chinese kids? 12 Aug 2013 | 06:04 am
I have a dataset of about 20,000 Chinese adults, a random sample of the population in 2008-2010 from all over China. Guess how many per 1000 adult women in that dataset say they have had children with...
Cesur and Ulker on gas, coal, and infant mortality 10 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
Just back from the 2013 Labour Econometrics Workshop at the Melbourne Institute. Lot of interesting papers, including this one of Cesur and Ulker on the enormous reduction in infant mortality that fol...
Random thoughts: meat consumption set to keep growing. 7 Aug 2013 | 06:40 am
Have a look at the graph below, taken from www.earth-policy.org, which conveys the stylised fact that greater economic development leads populations to eat more meat. The graph shows that total meat c...
Information and the AEA Elections 2 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
Over at the Freakonomics blog, I have a short essay arguing that the AEA should consider providing more information about candidates for its officer elections. It may be of some interest to readers of...
