The price of anarchy
It’s around 30% of your peak-hour travel time, apparently. Joshua Gans, like unaccountably many econobloggers, gets rather over-excited by Apple products. But, stripped of its Jobsianist overtones, Gans has an interesting idea – give people car navigation devices that, rather [...]
Journalism and political bias in Australia: Melbourne and ANU study
Blogging academics Joshua Gans of Melbourne University and Andrew Leigh of ANU have conducted a study into ‘media slant’ in Australian political coverage: Australian journalists are close to the centre of the political spectrum, but their editors are more likely [...]
Dumb inventions
Joshua Gans saw something unusual on the footpath recently – a Segway Personal Transporter, like these I saw on my “bike the Bay Area” exercise in San Francisco last year:
Emissions Caps as (Social) Floors
I awoke to Fran Kelly struggling to elicit Richard Denniss’ point about an emissions cap acting as an implicit floor this morning. (Update: TAI Report) Even asking him the same set of questions twice didn’t seem to help. You need [...]
Parentonomics
I recently heard Hugh Mackay give a talk on his forthcoming book, Advance Australia…Where?. Amongst his many claims was the idea those thirstysomethings and fortysomethings without children are becoming increasingly separated from those with them. To paraphrase, the child-free find [...]
Oz government gets back into the mortgage business
The Australian government is going to start buying mortgage-backed securities: Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says he has directed the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) to invest in residential mortgages. The decision follows the chaos in the United States housing [...]
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