A closing of some the browser tabs brings a few worthies:
- Roland Fryer Was Railroaded
- Brian Easton on the perils of ignoring economics
- Pay for defection. It raises the cost of attacking.
- The Canadians get stuck with a copyright term extension. Cosh is excellent here. Why does the Canadian government figure it can ignore the dairy provisions in trade agreements but bound by dumb copyright stuff?
- The extortion attempt continues. [Me on this, previously]
- Ontario's Housing Affordability Taskforce report from February has a lot of good stuff. I'll need to read through it more carefully. Looks like Ford won't be implementing it but there are ideas worth thinking through for NZ.
- Superb BusinessDesk piece on the cost of building infrastructure in NZ. I wish Auckland could outsource both construction and all of the approvals for its transport/infrastructure projects to whoever sorts that out in Seoul.
- Liberal Education
- Ages back, Hess & Orphanides found that discretionary wars were more likely for first term Presidents presiding over poor economic conditions. Simple little model. Re-election depends on demonstrating competence, two margins for demonstrating it, if you've failed at the one worth the punt on the other. Ashani Amarasinghe has a forthcoming piece at J. Pub that's far more extensive. Lots of governments aim to distract from domestic turmoil. But it doesn't work all that well.
