Monthly Archives: November 2006

FTAAP proposal dumped

It seems that the APEC Min­is­te­r­ial meet­ing in Hanoi has not sup­ported the pro­posal cham­pi­oned by Pres­i­dent Bush plus Fred Berg­sten and the APEC ‘busi­ness advi­sory’ com­mit­tee for a region-wide Free Trade Agree­ment of The Pacific. The APEC press release sug­gests, in the usual diplo­matic code, that the idea was “thumped”. Del­e­gates had a lively …

November 17, 2006 – 7:49 pm | By pwg | Posted in Resources | Comments (0)

So long Milton Friedman

Not many of us, prob­a­bly, are in thrall to this (now dead) econ­o­mist. But there are many who owe him a debt they know noth­ing about. Why? Samuel Brittan’s “obituary”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/cb74eef8-7599-11db-aea1-0000779e2340.html — a model of its kind — in the Finan­cial Times explains. Friedman’s own brief ‘auto­bi­og­ra­phy’ for the Nobel foun­da­tion, last updated in 2005, is …

November 17, 2006 – 5:38 pm | By pwg | Posted in Resources | Tagged | Comments (0)