I’m always told about how bean-counters everywhere like to cut costs, but every now and then something slips through the net. Apparently Japanese researchers are developing a paper airplane to fly from the International Space Station to Earth! As much fun as that sounds, I am baffled as to how they got funding.
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Oct 23 2007
Acquitted but not necessarily innocent
We mentioned a while back that the way politicians’ reputations are besmirched by allegations of misconduct coudl be due to the mistaken recollections of their constituents. Of course, there are rational reasons to mistrust politicians who are investigated for misconduct too, as Stuart Armstrong points out: more guilty people get tried and acquitted than the …
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Aug 14 2007
Subconscious nationalism
I hate nationalism, I agree with the idea of valuing your nation above other nations, it just seems like an arbitrary way of dividing people. However, I just had what I think was a nationalistic experience. I was reading this article about how a Trans-Tasman publisher had its first-half profits driven down by a poor …
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Aug 14 2007
People want higher incomes
I was reading an interesting article by Roger Kerr. Now there were a lot of good points here which I plan to discuss at some point, however I’m not going to right now. One thing that did catch my eye was a poll he used as evidence that our incomes are too low. According to …
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Aug 12 2007
Who needs government anyway?
We talk about government intervention all the time, but there are those who believe that governments themselves are unnecessary in modern economies. Peter Leeson says Anarchy, like all political-economic organizations, is riddled with problems. It is not clear that these problems are any more numerous or severe than those that plague governments, however. …Where the …
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Jul 27 2007
The Economist writes well
On the economist blog they decide to talk about carbon emissions. Everything they said was simple 1st year economics, I completely agree with them. But they say it so well, and in so few words. Now they might make the odd mistake (such as inverting the exchange rate and saying we are 72% over-valued against …
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