snlester I want to be excited about the US-EU trade talks. But I have some doubts: bit.ly/YxTr3j
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Sunstein justifies State’s attack on Mill’s freedom to ‘harm’ ourselves:: is.gd/7rI6xs But own ‘risk’ is the savour of liberty.
Self indulgence: VERY ordinary flick claiming Hollywood saved hostages wins top picture. Only two live bodies and one crappy joke in it.
Quigley’s asks for a partial CBA analysis of NBN tech options (from interested parties). Whole project needs CBA is.gd/i3qjJY
‘Orrible ordure. Ergas trashes, compacts and incinerates Gillard’s protectionist, implausible “jobs” plan::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
What chance Obama can do Pacific and Atlantic free trade deals before 2016? RT @WorldTradeLaw: Trade deals elude - bit.ly/VTC56M
scottlincicome So, the Australian government has apparently gone full protectionist. Brilliant. (ht @salliejames) pm.gov.au/press-office/g…
On his tour of Canberra wineries, seems Slipper spent most time at my brother Greg’s Gallagher Wines (para 16 is.gd/coYp8N).
We value human lives well lived … because they too embody a performance: a rising to the challenge of having a life to lead. Vale R Dworkin.
Nice brief gloss on to Olson’s ideas,too. RT @insteconomics: Was Mancur Olson Wrong? american.com/archive/2013/f…
Ridiculous decision (however lawful) that isolating a natural gene should found a commercial monopoly. Patents are BS ::austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/F…
Why no ‘deeper’ integration thru WTO? Shared values there are grand ideas with feeble commercial agendas: ‘development’, ‘full employment’.
US-EU trade must be free in ‘substantially’ all goods + service sectors w/in 10 yrs. Clean deal wd change landscape, but these two have form
scottlincicome Manufacturing fetishism needs to die | Sorry Mr. President, Manufacturing Will Not Save Us theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-econo… (h/t @TheTransom)
Wrong way to rebalance: China to raise subsidies for grains + public stocking of other commodities. See para 4 of is.gd/jax2YY
CatoFP Mentions checks and balances in prosecuting terrorists, but ignores the need for this in #drone strikes: j.mp/15aMpZ7 #SOTU
#LordByron
…nothing gives a man such spirits,
Leavening his blood as cayenne doth a curry,
As going at full speed
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WorldTradeLaw IELP Blog: Protectionism: Not Dead Yet bit.ly/U6tTOm
Juan’s voyage (is.gd/yeFGJK) Lo-res, w/notes, fm illust. audio-iBook Don Juan (Canto I): is.gd/4g7byg #poetry #ibooks
scottlincicome Awesome: NYT’s disastrous test-drive of subsidized electric car leads to epiphany: “theory can be trumped by reality” nytimes.com/2013/02/10/aut…
Illust. audio-iBook of Byron’s Don Juan being “Hawk’d about at a discount” $0.00 is.gd/4g7byg #poetry #ibooks pic.twitter.com/qGj26qQ7
Hitchcock’s ‘experimental’ Rope (1948). Camp, arch dialog, long one-shot scenes. Great fun. iTunes omits crucial bit (in the preview reel!).
A better approach to WTO agreements? Instead of paying for compliance up front (TF draft) why not test for results first with a few options?
Heaps of WB data, expert opinion (is.gd/rCCHRY) but what evidence draft WTO Trade Facilitation deal will cut actual delays, cost?
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Why does Zoellick’s agenda for trade, monetary policy not convince? Because such idealism from US is too often a bluff? is.gd/ozwyXD
If EU-US trade deal (is.gd/VsRxUG) went ahead - long shot - it could easily become a case of the good being the enemy of the best
Daniel Altman’s (old) idea for more “free” trade needs global tax +, probably, a bureaucracy to re-distribute rents is.gd/6GRki5
Keeping pork porn private::RT @insteconomics: Car subsidies are a state secret, bureaucrat rules afr.com/p/national/car…
The case against patents: “there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity” is.gd/pRQooe
Pitches fm candidates for next WTO head, 2b ‘elected’ mid-year. Clichés^2. Best bets: Blanco (Mex) or Pangestu (Idn). is.gd/zKhyJs
FREE today: Byron’s Don Juan Canto I, fully narrated & illustrated in iBookstore. is.gd/4g7byg Please rate! pic.twitter.com/WgUerJ4T
WorldTradeLaw IELP Blog: Will Deep Integration Sink the TPP? bit.ly/Wm5cf0
If we could do what we need to do with a WTO 2.0 then we wouldn’t need a WTO 2.0:: is.gd/IXSzfy
Drafting an introductory book on trade research methods. A chapter on statistics for the non-mathematical here:: is.gd/jIbdFn
Google Maps are hand-made from geo-data; a massive, unending work of cadastral tapestry is.gd/jzq1o2
Animated real time map of tweet-verse: beautiful implementation but about what? tweetping.net/#
Using evidence not ‘values’ to cut indigenous disadvantage::The Spectator » Australia::spectator.co.uk/australia/aust…