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Safety, Stability and Regulating the Regulators
Category: Blog/Analysis
... and effective, then it must be. The likelihood that a mum rushing to pick up cough-mixture for her sick child is going to have the time to study pharmacology and read the literature on double-blind medical ... Thursday, 29 July 2010 -
The long, hard road of self-publishing a web comic
Category: Blog/Analysis
... style. A lack of artistic talent doesn't stand in your way as long as you make up for it with clever gags. Xkcd is just a series of stick-figure drawings that even the most untalented child could do. ... Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
Category: Blog/Analysis
... improving livelihoods. Africa has been the poster-child for opportunities trampled underfoot since the end of the war which set Europe on its “noble” path. The shuffle of borders that were left grouped ... Thursday, 04 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... children. And the eyes are always on us,” said Orson Welles in 1955. Since then, much has happened. Technology has allowed free speech to spread as easily as the seasonal flu. It has also allowed governments ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
... just as every child – when presented with crayons and paper – is capable of sitting down and drawing away happily and creatively. Not every child will have the same talent for drawing, but that is immaterial ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
... as often as analysts who work in finance. However, the rate of change is much slower. If everyone stopped having children today, the population wouldn’t halve overnight. If everyone got pregnant today, ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the world’s first Kibbutz; a collective farm based on communist principles. Everything was held in common, even children were raised as a single group separately from their parents. No-one would own ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
Being a child in the world’s poorest nations is not idyllic. Widespread poverty means that many have to work to support their families. This limits their access to education and damages their health. ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
The responsibility that comes with social grants
Category: Blog/Analysis
... combined responsibility with benefits. Money is paid directly to mothers for up to three children, on condition each regularly attends school. The cash is paid out directly into digital debit cards ... Thursday, 23 July 2009 -
Different Choices in Revaluing the World Economy
Category: Blog/Analysis
Quickly is best... A child, when removing a band-aid from a hairy extremity, has a number of choices. She could yank it off rapidly, jerking out the hairs in one go, causing a short-sharp-shock of pain. ... Wednesday, 03 December 2008 -
Zimbabwe's Hope Deterred
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the sincerity of his attempt at the presidency in March. Zimbabwe needs an urgent solution to its current problems. No man, no woman, no child should be allowed to go to bed hungry anymore. People need ... Sunday, 09 November 2008 -
After Conceit: Recovering from the Credit Crunch
Category: Blog/Analysis
... not. The Catholic Church has been rocked by its own scandals before. In 1498, the pope was Rodrigo Borgia, reigning as Pope Alexander VI. He had various children by various mistresses, including Cesare ... Sunday, 12 October 2008 -
Possession of state assets has become an end in itself
Category: Blog/Analysis
... continue to under-perform their private-sector competitors. Our politicians don't go to state hospitals when ill anymore than their children go to state schools. The government's continued promotion ... Tuesday, 23 September 2008 -
South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
Category: Blog/Analysis
... elections. The war became a sordid misery of rape, looting, and bribery as Russian parents attempted to keep their children away from the draft. The destruction wasn’t only in Chechnya, but resulted ... Saturday, 09 August 2008 -
The errors of selection and confirmation bias
Category: Blog/Analysis
... taking place in the media is affecting the market. As a low-life hack myself, I consider it our role to inform and to hold leaders to account, not to be like the parents of children learning how to walk ... Tuesday, 29 July 2008 -
Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
Category: Blog/Analysis
... can apply force, or they can offer ostensible advantages to being in the system. Loyalty oaths are a useful way of brainwashing taxpayer's children into supporting the system, but it is slow. Meanwhile, ... Friday, 23 May 2008 -
Of Chiefs and Presidents
Category: Blog/Analysis
Mugabe and Mogae; only one is a leader Traditionally, chiefs and kings are only replaced after death. In many cultures, they are replaced by a family member, a sibling, relative or child. This culture ... Wednesday, 09 April 2008 -
Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
Category: Blog/Analysis
... simply become tour-guides. But that doesn't mean that other options don't exist. It is just as clear that many, such as Ehrenreich, would rather their children deal with environmental disaster ... Monday, 31 December 2007 -
This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Individual production is hardly efficient. If it were those terrible leaches on society – capitalists – who would sell their own grandmothers, children and wives to make mincemeat to sell ... Saturday, 15 December 2007 -
Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
Category: Blog/Analysis
Child slave, Zanzibar, circa 1890 The land that peasant farmers, or shack-dwellers, live on is frequently either public land, or land that vests in a tribal chief. The residents act to improve that land ... Tuesday, 13 November 2007
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