Rent Seeking in Elite Networks
Some more fascinating results in the ‘whodda thunk?’ category.
Articles from Club Troppo
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Competitive neutrality: Camels, pinballs, tilted playing fields and five minute arguments …
Cross posted from the Mandarin:
Could CPR resuscitate our political system (Corporate Political Responsibility that is)?
One of my twenty something friends once told me of a meeting to discuss corporate social responsibility in their Big Law Firm. Along came the heavies of the firm, together with their Champions of Change.
It’s on again on 6th Sept: making the world a tad better with our guest Christos Tsiolkas
If only I’d been alive to get to one of these events.
Nelson Mandela
Authoritarianism: GUEST POST by John Burnheim
Arguing with an American ex-Australian now resident in Canada, I contested his view that, of the three countries, America is the least and Australia the most, authoritarian. In part it was a verbal difference.
The first page test: Hannah Arendt edition
There’s an amazing amount of dreck about – masquerading as the latest thinking. It’s not that there isn’t a lot to think about, so it’s easy to think you should read this or that. How to choose? One of my filters is the first page test, or even the first paragraph test. Does the first paragraph have arresting ideas in it.
Me on Krugman: the podcast
Leon Gettler interviewed me recently on my exchange with Krugman. As you can imagine, it’s a difficult thing to explain in an interview, but I took that as a challenge – if you like to my interview ‘technique’.
