Economic incentives and health care
There’s quite a nasty little scandal emerging in the Victorian health system. It emerged through an Auditor-General’s report showing – amongst other things – at least one hospital was indulging in “data manipulation”. It now appears that other Victorian hospitals [...]
Turnbull's turn
I’m not sure if the anniversary has been celebrated, but it’s just over six months since Malcolm Turnbull became Leader of the Opposition. At the time, I suggested that he needed to junk the obsession with the Howard legacy, and [...]
Fictitious capital and the first recession of the services economy
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
What to do with day old bread
What Larvatus Prodeo needs, I thought to myself, is some opinionated lazy weekend food blogging. So here’s a start. This may or may not become a semi-regular / occasional / completely irregular weekend thing, depending on how it is received, [...]
Doing something for unfashionable diseases
Warning: not really about politics, and slightly self-indulgent… One of the reasons Lance Armstrong has given for his return to competitive racing is the desire to promote his chosen cause – improving the lot of cancer survivors. And, however you [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Hot dentist with famous sibling to lead LNP
From today’s Crikey email: Queensland has a new opposition leader. Former Liberal and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek was yesterday elected leader of the LNP, beating Clayfield MP Tim Nicholls by a narrow margin after the elimination of former [...]
Senate calling: what do you think about climate change?
Dave Bath has reminded us several times now that the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy has called for submissions which must be made by Wednesday, 8 April 2009. That’s next Wednesday, so get cracking. Submissions can be emailed to [...]
Guest post by Jeff Sparrow: The 2020 Summit anniversary
From today’s Crikey — Jeff Sparrow of Overland writes: It’s quite astonishing that the public figure who yesterday pointed out that the deadline for Kevin Rudd’s response to ideas from his 2020 summit had quietly come and gone was Peter [...]
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