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via The ridiculous non-candidate charade – The Washington Post.
The ridiculous non-candidate charade in presidential primary elections
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, campaign finance regulation, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Australians are the world’s worst gamblers
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: gambling, gambling regulation
Australians gamble (and lose) more than anyone else on a per-person basis econ.st/1Fy42BO #econarchive http://t.co/z2BeOcbRAn—
The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 06, 2015
On the day I first started to feel old
13 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: good old days, grumpy old man
About 10 years ago, I was minding my own business at a car museum in Launceston, Tasmania. We were having a fine time looking through all the various developments of cars and motorbikes from the very early days. It was an excellent museum. I enjoy the occasional visit to a car museum.
The horror, the horror. With no warning it was upon me. One of the exhibits of a vintage car was one of the sports cars of my youth: a Holden Monaro GTS.
With no warning, no phase-in period, I instantly started to feel old. Courtesy of Facebook, I can relive and share those moments at my leisure.
How can I pretend to be still young when surrounded by a range of sports cars of my high school days at a museum. If the sports cars in my youth are vintage cars I must be a bit of a vintage myself. All my previous experiences with vintage cars was with old cars, usually from before World War II, that had been restored after years of neglect and disuse.
Entrepreneurial alertness and riot shields
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
The digital consumption boom continues in New Zealand
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: creative destruction, ICT
Most UFOS spotted between 9pm and 10pm – the closing time at pubs in the old days
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: alcohol regulation, UFOs
via UFO sightings map in US shows fireball shaped craft seen more than disc-shaped | Daily Mail Online.
US counties where alcohol is not allowed to be sold AKA dry counties (red) http://t.co/MC6iR6G9KE—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) June 05, 2015
Niagara Falls frozen in 1911
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Niagara Falls frozen in 1911 http://t.co/CNT2EddYdB—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) January 22, 2014
The British empire was one of the last colonialists out of the block
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, colonialism, imperialism
Australia at night
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, energy economics Tags: Australia, maps
Notice the light pollution in Java (top left) compared to Australia – brilliantmaps.com/light-pollutio… http://t.co/f8nZodQhrB—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) March 22, 2015
Google maps of India differ in India and China
07 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of media and culture, war and peace Tags: border disputes, China, Google, India, maps
Where people are the most and least racially tolerant
02 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of media and culture, gender, labour economics, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, maps, racial discrimination, racial tolerance, racism
More and more countries still think smokers don’t know the risks of cancer sticks
02 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state, Other people are stupid fallacy, paternalism, risk trade-offs
The war on smoking, in one chart i100.io/6f3d2uj http://t.co/mlajmx68yq—
i100 (@thei100) November 26, 2014
Creative destruction in digital devices
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: cell phones, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, PCs, smart phones, The Great Enrichment
1993 vs 2013: http://t.co/tdnNqmRmcS—
History Pics (@HistoryPixs) January 08, 2014
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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