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The debate about the environmental benefits of solar power is not dead. This short story is intended to raise serious issues about how we c...

I recently wrote about the theoretical arguments surrounding fiscal stimulus by governments ( here ). Anna Bligh in her election campaign pr...

Economists are often deluded into believing that their years of diligent research into how government intervention can maximise the wellbein...

Being a habitual sceptic (and an economist), the insights offered by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan have struck a chord. I have n...

I recently ran across a very interesting website called Tagcrowd . It counts word frequency in text and presents a neat cloud of words that...

I have had some interesting thoughts lately regarding the trends towards the privatisation of infrastructure and the user pays principle whi...

I must say that until recently I have had little exposure to the writings of Andrew Bolt . A short snippet of him on telly once seemed to h...

I have been reading some great articles about poor science journalism , and gross misrepresentation of the facts. These articles got me thi...

I am shocked. Really. The amount of time and energy devoted to ridiculous ‘social issues’ like daylight saving time could be devoted to so...

My title is yet another rip off. This time from Dan Ariely et al.’s 2006 paper Tom Sawyer and the construction of value . In my opinion, t...