Dream comes true? King estate milks a copyright preserving, you know, the ‘public benefit’. This system is broken::wapo.st/17kHZP5
RT @insteconomics: Possibly the only good idea Jim Cairns ever had: tinyurl.com/qxhrxjf
AFL a cartel? Or “natural” monopoly? Could a new entrant find demand to justify investments at competitive scale? catallaxyfiles.com/2013/08/29/the…
A DNS attack only. NYT is reachable at it’s IP address: http://170.149.168.130/ and reporting the problem is.gd/pRKnFv
Can’t reach NYTImes.com. Story seems to be that the Syrians hacked Melbourne IT, the NYTImes registrar:: is.gd/vyRA0x
DEShellenberger Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns onion.com/14Be72i via @TheOnion
What fool would believe, after Iraq, that intelligence on Syrian war was ‘irrefutable’ or expect ‘punishment’ by bombs to help anything?
RT @VicAlhadeff: “The UN has elected Robert Mugabe…” Not really. UNWTO Assembly is in Zimbabwe this year. HOS is usually the titular chair.
Good grief…an actual blog postis.gd/rSJ1UB5v (incautious, possibly; even rude… )
Seems USA might use Tomahawk drones to punish Syria for the ‘moral obscenity’ of killing civilians by other means online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
kw_watson Why not just zero duty? RT @insidetrade: Australia To Push TPP Provision On Temporary Entry Of Pallets, Packaging bit.ly/16DXf71
scruzin Be a cluey voter and vote below the line! ClueyVoter now even more secure with SSL: clueyvoter.com #AusVotes
RT @OldPaddler: TPP excites more scepticism economist.com/news/asia/2158… <— “Of 29 proposed chapters, 15 have yet to be negotiated”
Gary Banks on why entrenched rent-seeking is a bigger threat to our prosperity than population ageing or the GFC is.gd/qLZOQ2
Northern development policy? Hughes promised one, Lyons too. Brits suggested giving it to Japan as a peace offering! is.gd/dAEWWD
insteconomics David Uren: “The anti-dumping policies of both parties are a reminder of how much we have forgotten” theaustralian.com.au/business/opini…
Only 9% of PRISM intercepts fm upstream ‘wire taps’. Most of 250m intercepts fm service providers (Ggl, FB, Tw etc?) is.gd/SnjXNL
An important paper on the need to improve scientific method in economics: +1 for replication (via @MargRev) is.gd/i3c2X7
RT @WorldTradeLaw: Malaysia Cabinet drops TPP timeline bit.ly/167GEZ5 I’d like to see a CBA of IP provisions for Australia, too!
Great fun at Bell’s “Comedy of Errors” last night. What farces from the 1990s will last 400 years — or 2200 considering CoE is part Plautus?
@howserob Occam’s rule needed. The main problems for ‘supply chain’ trade are dealt with in WTO 1.0. My take here: is.gd/U8BH5w
How to manage complex government? Humility: all policy is experiment. Use controls + trials, review, adjust, repeat. is.gd/9EH9vq
“Copyright infringement? It’s just a few digits of π! They were always there!”::github.com/philipl/pifs
Context for the Indonesian move? RT @howserob: Tobacco state protest could hurt Obama trade deal salon.com/2013/08/13/tob… via @Salon
Indonesia seems keen to retaliate in the Clove Cigarettes trade complaint against USA. Maybe a risky move::is.gd/KRG2Yk
Half way through a lost decade, “the euro-zone economy is still 3% smaller than in early 2008”::is.gd/UFBccN
I imagine “trust capital” is like institutional efficiency. What is the cost to the US (any) economy of its loss?::schneier.com/blog/archives/…
Oops… Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook… [acronyms!!]
Quick prep. for tomorrow’s Pre-Election Fiscal & Policy Outlook yfrog.com/g085mtp ::download here::is.gd/UyDwI5
Remarkable selections from writings on capitalism before Adam Smith: “Commerce, Culture, and Liberty” by Henry Clark is.gd/w2EsZk
Marles: “We need an FTA with China but got nowhere in the past seven years.. Please re-elect us”. Interesting pitch! theaustralian.com.au/news/we-need-c…
Tyler Cowan’s int’l trade reading list:: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
“There is no known vaccine against the risks posed by a man as consumed by means as he is barren of ends” @HenryErgas theaustralian.com.au/opinion/column…
Useless and obscure FIRB bureaucracy pretending to ‘guard the gates’ to Aus investment market should be abolished is.gd/zxrR2G
insteconomics Post-election environment ripe for renewed outbreak of FDI protectionism theaustralian.com.au/business/compa…
RT @snlester: My short rant about copyright terms in the TPP: bit.ly/11Pw0Zm AUSFTA requires life+70. An unwarranted hidden subsidy.
@howserob, enjoyed, learned from, your “Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War, and Peace” in the Brook. J. Intʼl Law, thanks!
IBM says NBN bill “not that much” @ $40bn (as if!). Our taxes not their worry! NBN = blank cheque for tech providers. theaustralian.com.au/business/compa…
“Give Manning & Snowden the Nobel Peace Prize”::salon.com/2013/08/03/giv… Better to protect Snowden, pardon Manning than this messy gesture.
C Kenny on what I like most (he acts on his principles) and least (he undervalues markets) about T Abbott’s policies::theaustralian.com.au/opinion/abbott…
“…it’s interesting that the Taliban were the first to report [the hunger strike]” Force-feeding the ‘detainees’ goo.gl/I9Tzee