| Blog Review 669 |
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| Written by Netsmith | |
| Friday, 25 July 2008 | |
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From hte Department of Empirical Proof: as we spend ever more money each year in the War on Drugs, as we give up ever more liberties as we fight it, what happens to the street price of drugs? Time to call a halt, no? More number crunching. Of the recently announced EU extra subsidies to agriculture, guess which country gets the lion's share? Heard of the Bifurcated Man? Here's version 2.0. An excellent question and answer on farming questions. Very much worth reading in full. Are people asking the wrong question about journalism? Instead of "how can we make it profitable" shouldn't it be "if it can't be made profitable then we shouldn't have journalism"? Explaining the economics of airlines. And finally, the upside to Zimbabwe's problems. Comments (1)
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but a bit beside the point
Farm subsidies are not an efficiency problem but a political issue
do they buy enough votes for a democracy to support them?
clearly they seem to over 3/4 of a century!