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Professor Quiggin, our new tax Commissar admits error ... Bolt proven right1 comment

Tom Harley wrote 2 months ago: Doomed Planet, Quadrant online … John Dawson Professor Bolt and the dunce The columnist and Qu … more →

Tags: Climate, Weather, Comedy, Science, Oz politics, media, environment, Climate, science and technology

climate tax commissar gets pwned ...

Tom Harley wrote 3 months ago: The pompous one loses Andrew Bolt March 14 2013 (4:40pm) It’s Professor Sinclair Davidson vs Profess … more →

Tags: Climate, Weather, Comedy, Oz politics, media, Climate, science and technology, Climate model, Andrew Bolt

A speculative future of housework - part 1 of a series5 comments

Robert Merkel wrote 5 months ago: John Quiggin’s excellent essay The 15-Hour Week argues (to simplify what was already a somewha … more →

Tags: Economics, Futurism, housework, aeon magazine, Keynes, john maynard keynes

Do Not Concentrate on the Finger...Or You Will Miss All that Heavenly Glory

David Kaib wrote 7 months ago: Corey Robin throw a little cold water on the death of conservatism thesis making the rounds in light … more →

Tags: Corey Robin, austerity, Bruce Lee, Enter The Dragon, conservatism

Conservatism is Dead...Because It Lives26 comments

Corey Robin wrote 7 months ago: In the conclusion to The Reactionary Mind, I claimed that conservatism was dead. I wrote that in the … more →

Tags: The Right, The Left, Barack Obama, 2012 election, austerity

The US Should Stop Obsessing About the Middle East

breviosity wrote 7 months ago: John Quiggin in The National Interest argues persuasively that the U.S. does not have vital national … more →

Tags: middle east, US Politics, national interests, threat exaggeration, The National Interest

Hayek von Pinochet65 comments

Corey Robin wrote 11 months ago: It’s no secret that Friedrich von Hayek was a warm supporter of Augusto Pinochet’s blood … more →

Tags: Political Theory, The Right, Edmund Burke, Brad DeLong, Greg Grandin, Hayek, Pinochet, Michael Lind, Alan Ebenstein

Australia's carbon tax and global temperatures2 comments

John Humphreys wrote 11 months ago: Australia now has a carbon tax , and there is now much chatter  about how this will impact on the ec … more →

Tags: Environment, climate change, Carbon Tax, Andrew Bolt, temperature change, Garnaut

Budget 2012: A surplus at what cost?

Catherine Zengerer wrote 1 year ago: The federal government made good its promise of a surplus in this year’s federal budget … more →

Tags: Interviews - Economics, ALP, Budget, Budget 2012, Economics, Labor, Steve Keen, Surplus, Wayne Swan

Reply to John Quiggin's Zombie Economics

kotzabasis wrote 1 year ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and … more →

Tags: Politics, Europe, Greece, endurance, before adversity, reply, Antonis Samaras, Long term, Zombie Economics

Reply to John Quiggin's Zombie Economics

kotzabasis wrote 1 year ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, Europe, constructing peace, hostile world, Antonis Samaras, unbalanced budget, reply, Zombie Economics

Reply to John Quiggin's Zombie Economics

kotzabasis wrote 1 year ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and … more →

Tags: Politics, Australia, Economics, free market, bright thoughts, Sunset, Budget, reply, Zombie Economics

Reply to John Quiggin's Zombie Economics

kotzabasis wrote 1 year ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, Europe, Greece, daring thoughts, budget reply, Zombie Economics, False Prosperity, drug

A Reply to John Quiggin's Zombie Economics3 comments

kotzabasis wrote 1 year ago: By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and … more →

Tags: Politics, free market, Europe, Exceptional, leaders in war, Prosperity, reply, Budget, Zombie Economics

Another prize! And other news of the blog and the book10 comments

Corey Robin wrote 1 year ago: The blog has won another award!  Cliopatra, the history blog at the History News Network, has awarde … more →

Tags: Political Theory, The Right, media, andrew sullivan, Matt Yglesias, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Digby, Daniel Larison, Glenn Greenwald

Austerity is NOT the Answer

01varvara wrote 1 year ago: How ’bout some AUSTERITY for these guys? ______________________________ The most dangerous myt … more →

Tags: Politics, Economy, EU, austerity, John Kasich, Eurozone, Greek economic crisis

FUTURE OF THE LIVING DEAD

allenguywilcox wrote 1 year ago: Zombie Economics, by John Quiggin “…In broad historical strokes, with flashes of careful … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Brooklyn Rail, Allen Wilcox, Allen Guy Wilcox, Economics, Zombie Economics

Is that supposed to be an insult?

brobrubel wrote 1 year ago: An economist on the right wrote the following sentence as an insult last week in a review of a book … more →

Tags: Politics, Economics, regulation, Paul Krugman, united states, Brad DeLong, economists view, University of Oregon

"Quiggin's coffee sharpened mind"33 comments

Iain Hall wrote 1 year ago: As regular readers may have realised I take great delight in reading the blathering of the far left … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Global Warming, Media Matters, Carbon Trading, green Hypocrites, AGW and climate change, Leftism, Queensland, Popular Culture


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