Slightly more considered view of Monbiot’s discovery. It’s a little odd to study Britain then conclude that racism and conservatism are aligned when our most racist political party is a nationalist socialist one and when our most conservative political party is the Labour Party.
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That Conservatives are Stoopid thing
February 8th, 2012 · 7 Comments
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This is fun
February 5th, 2012 · 8 Comments
The Daisey thing has got picked up by The Guardian and I’m mentioned in it. It’s really rather fun in the comments: we’ve even got someone flat out insisting that UK GDP per capita in 1600, or Chinese in 1978, could not possibly be only $950 a year because it’s impossible to survive on £2 [...]
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Timmy elsewhere
February 4th, 2012 · 4 Comments
I think I can live with this description on Twitter: djdoucheface david watson but this conservative douche nuts forbes journalist actually makes some annoyingly decent points au contraire onforb.es/wE4yYv
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Timmy elsewhere
February 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment
At the ASI. It’s a little odd when people accept only one of the two, public choice theory and the principal/agent problem. For they’re really just two sides of the same coin.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 29th, 2012 · 6 Comments
At the ASI. An interesting quote from Keynes pointing out that it’s not all about aggregate demand.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 28th, 2012 · 16 Comments
At the ASI. Turns out this Anglo Saxon style of capitalism, with it’s emphasis on public markets for equities, does have some advantages over Rhineland capitalism after all.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 27th, 2012 · No Comments
At the ASI. CSR increases profits: which is why profit maximising companies do some of it. Just perhaps not quite as much as the campaigners think they should, for that level of it isn’t profit maximising.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments
At the ASI. The stupid people whining about the living wage. Why not just cut taxes on poor people?
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Timmy elsewhere
January 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Correct
January 20th, 2012 · 25 Comments
6. The best thing for wages and working conditions is full employment, and we can achieve this by getting rid of the minimum wage and regulations. This will increase wages and improve working conditions, but these higher wages and conditions won’t reduce employment in the same way as the regulations did before because free market. Yup. Because [...]
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Timmy elsewhere
January 15th, 2012 · No Comments
At the ASI. nef really is the no economics foundation. They’re even against the division of labour for goodness sake.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 14th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Travelling Timmy
January 8th, 2012 · 5 Comments
Off to the ‘Ore Mountains again. ‘Untin’ slags. The start of a new little business adventure. This week is to sort out a flat etc. Then will be based up there most of the time for the next 6 months. I’ll be like everyone else, coming to Portugal on hols……
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Timmy elsewhere
January 7th, 2012 · No Comments
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Timmy elswhere
January 6th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Timmy elsewhere
January 5th, 2012 · No Comments
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Timmy elsewhere
January 5th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Timmy elsewhere
January 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments
At the ASI. Another thing that might be wrong with the DECC calculations about the costs of renewables.
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Timmy elsewhere
January 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
At the ASI If neoliberalism gets the blame for the state of the world then shouldn’t it also get the praise for the things that have gone right?
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Timmy elsewhere
January 1st, 2012 · 1 Comment
At the ASI. Why we really don’t want to try and build a great big computer model of the financial markets.
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