Blog Review 669 Print
Written by Netsmith   
Friday, 25 July 2008

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.

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Farm Subsidies
written by Dr Alister McFarquhar, July 25, 2008
Interesting review on Farm subsidies

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!

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