Not all about the WTO
Years ago, in the early 2000’s, the WTO hired me to write several books about the Organisation and the treaties. I still sometimes get a request, althoug...
Category: Public policy
“Two Terrible Decades” — a synopsis
Part One of the book is a detailed account of the founding of the International Chamber of Commerce in the aftermath of the Great War of 1914–18, and of ...
Is a plurilateral the ‘way out’ for WTO on agriculture?
Q: under what circumstances would a critical-mass (CM) plurilateral agreement on agriculture be a way “out of the mess” in the WTO agriculture negot...
The physical science of climate change
I’m late finding this Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) report. I include the summary of their findings on the physica...
Statistics for (non-mathematical) trade analysts
I teach a ‘summer intensive’ graduate course in Trade Research Methods at the University of Adelaide. In five days we cover everything from the role ...
Evidence-free policy on cars
His Telstra term has apparently left Ziggy Switkowski with a taste for Gaullist illogic. He reckons that the absence of a rationale — other than rent-se...
Davos dribbles
What a world of blather, the Davos meeting must be. The corporate chattering classes titilating themselves with scary, fuzzy, big-picture boogaloo. ...