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Using Adam Smith to explain why a £6 tax per phone line to extend broadband is a bad idea. Although, to be honest, you could probably use Marx, Edward Lear or Barney the Dinosaur to explain why a £6 tax per phone line to extend broadband is a bad idea.

More Smith, this time about the difference between selfishness and rational self interest.

There's something not quite right about this idea of having a criminal trial without a jury.

What would you prefer to have? No Smokers or a Navy?

Worth remembering who helped get rid of the draft: that would have been enough for fame and glory, forget the Nobel and all the rest.

Yes, these plates in the road to use the cars to power the lights: it's perpetual motion flimflammery again.

And finally, crazed bailout economics.

And really finally, Netsmith bows out having reached the M mark. Been fun etc.

Toodle Pip!

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Blog Review 999

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Yet more evidence of Laffer Effects. The income of small business owners (who have more opportunities for changing behaviour of course) is twice as responsive to tax rate changes than the incomes of employees.

Not quite zero tolerance, but if you crack down on silliness when it's still silly then you'll not get the larger problems.

Could someone please create a similar guide to right wing zealous artcle writing? Then we'd all know what to avoid.

Argument Against Democracy No. CCVII.....there are at least 18 people who should not have the vote.

Argument Against Democracy No. CCVIII....look at the naivety of those who actually get elected.

Explaining Dani Rodrik's Capitalism 3.0.

And finally, another face/palm moment.

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Blog Review 998

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On the Iranian election: the secret to cheating is not to do it too well.

Why we need our own Pirate Party in the UK: it's not just for Sweden you know.

The side effects of regulation: the banning of naked short selling simply leads to larger profits for hedge funds.

Once again, evidence that accepting government "help" is more expensive than not having such government help.

Contrary to what we are told, plastic bags do not take 100 years to decompose.

Sometimes, economists would prefer that people did not take their advice.

And finally, why bother with satire when the real world offers such gems?

 

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Blog Review 997

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Another wonderful green scheme appears to be no more than a perpetual motion machine: or, of course, theft.

How fascinating. A judge upholds the law and so we're all going to see whether the Obama proposals for the car companies are in fact better than simple bankruptcy.

The banning of repugnant transactions leads to even more repugnant outcomes. This is as true of organ donations as it is of drugs or prostitution.

Just because the BNP wins a couple of seats doesn't mean we should tighten up on immigration.

A detailed look at just how many parts of Magna Carta the current government is breaking.

Technology changes the calculus of political repression (just as it changes the calculus of pretty much everything else).

And finally, technology changes what we tell the kids about divorce.

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