Economics links
On the awkward economics and politics of health care. If you don’t ration by price, you ration by queue (or favours): but an 18 month wait for a hearing aid when you’re 108 is not a laughing matter.
The CD boom is over and iTunes and iPods killed it while live performance is doing very well: Being in the same place at the same time as a live performance, music fans appear to have decided, is the rarest and most precious presence of all.
Globalisation is a new name for a very old process which is less than universal: more than a billion people live on less than a dollar a day, and most are likely never to have made a phone call or to have travelled beyond their place of birth.
Angsting about the economics and culture of contemporary newspapers: At present the Internet is basically an electronic version of the ten-year-old boy on a bicycle who used to toss the newspaper on the front porch: an ingenious circulation device.
Free textbook site. Via linkfrenzy.
An Indian company has opened a call centre in Ohio. Via fizzyland.
Optimists: some white farmers are returning to Zimbabwe in the hopes that Mugabe’s days are numbered.
About growth models: They all fail to take fully into account technological and institutional changes, which have been responsible for four-fifths of economic growth in the past and are expected to help overcome the limits to future growth And also. Both via notebuyer.
Oxfam is calling for more aid for Iraq.
The CD boom is over and iTunes and iPods killed it while live performance is doing very well: Being in the same place at the same time as a live performance, music fans appear to have decided, is the rarest and most precious presence of all.
Globalisation is a new name for a very old process which is less than universal: more than a billion people live on less than a dollar a day, and most are likely never to have made a phone call or to have travelled beyond their place of birth.
Angsting about the economics and culture of contemporary newspapers: At present the Internet is basically an electronic version of the ten-year-old boy on a bicycle who used to toss the newspaper on the front porch: an ingenious circulation device.
Free textbook site. Via linkfrenzy.
An Indian company has opened a call centre in Ohio. Via fizzyland.
Optimists: some white farmers are returning to Zimbabwe in the hopes that Mugabe’s days are numbered.
About growth models: They all fail to take fully into account technological and institutional changes, which have been responsible for four-fifths of economic growth in the past and are expected to help overcome the limits to future growth And also. Both via notebuyer.
Oxfam is calling for more aid for Iraq.