SamKSS Turnbull Liberal government fails again.
Lobbyists and special interests win while consumers lose.
Hopeless.
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@tedgioia It’s still more remarkable how long this (almost) exact contemporary of J S Bach lived! pic.twitter.com/WXE3nJGwYX
CarolineFreund Why confronting China on trade right now is the wrong strategy || My latest bloomberg.com/view/articles/…
snlester From @inumanak, @dikenson and me, Renegotiating NAFTA in the Era of Trump: cato.org/publications/w…
Who blocks the ads that the ad-blockers introduce?::arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03193…
Detailed round-up of high quality research on gender differences (Damore claims contra PIchai supported)::heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the…
Hmm… Link referenced article at The Conversation is broken. Ahmadpoor+Jones can be found atscience.sciencemag.org/content/357/63…Zb
“Science most directly linked to application [has] major impact w/in science itself” See @mattwridley “Science is t..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…KO
Authors incurious about apparent dramatic improvements in 15th Century (rely on 19th C price series for tallow)::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…em
snlester I tried to get inside Trump’s head and figure out how he thinks about trade: worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2017/…
It won’t be useful. Empiricism always underdetermines reality (Duhem, Quine). P-values are privileged rhetoric::twitter.com/DARPA/status/8…
The Devil’s Dictionary of Chinese socialism (Xinhua’s style guide)::twitter.com/zhangzizhu527/…
@alan_john_moran Unity? @timwilsoncomau says same-sex marriage fight diverts fm more important issues for electorat..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…Y7
@samirvarma @KlingBlog Maybe I’m being too polite. I mean e.g. the anti-sugar, anti-vaping, (parts of) the plain-pa..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…TB
Good fm @KlingBlog. Still, is the self-interest of “Baptists” (virtue-signallers, behavior nudgers) hard to discern?:twitter.com/samirvarma/sta…
snlester Meet the new swamp. Same as the old swamp.
jsonline.com/story/news/pol… twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
CIA chief’s “threat rank” maybe right; CHN rise also an historic bonus; secrets < threatening than stuff you can see:twitter.com/jgarnaut/statu…
What @DeirdreMcClosk calls “trade tested betterment” in one picture::ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g… pic.twitter.com/xcFszdxoCn
@TimHarcourt @jayantmenon Silly speculation from @ozprodcom. AU’s biggest trade threats to trade, investment are (as ever) homegrown.
CHL & bits of IDN have plausible antipodes; but few other places::bit.ly/2vISCNH
@TrineeshB @SimonEvenett @nsitharaman It could (almost) be an IND speech from 1986! More convincing on the endless..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…42
How is the AU Labor party like a sea squirt? @HenryErgas on conservatism, Camus, Disraeli, Berlin & Groucho Marx::theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/…
Such research might (??) cheer @SincDavidson but somewhat reconciles me to the feminization of Western Society::..twitter.com/i/web/status/8…QP
@dikenson: US & CHN cybersecurity policies “reduce the scope for innovation, collaboration, and economic growth…” cato.org/publications/p…IFh3
BTW in 2008 I wrote a “Handbook” on Shedules for WTO (unattributed, alas::amazon.com/Handbook-Readi…). Excerpt here::wto.org/english/res_e/…