Category Archives: Economics

Environmental innovation

February 11, 2007 – 12:29 pm

Regular Catallaxy commenter JC has a guest post up over at Club Troppo on innovative technological responses to environmental concerns - and among other things he flags one of Graeme Bird’s favourite planning ideas - the abolition of height restrictions on inner-city residential accommodation. He’s started a very lively thread among Troppodillians, so I thought [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Science | Comments (116)

Hayek on Amazon

January 28, 2007 – 3:22 pm

Since we’re shameless promoters of all things Hayek around these parts, and we’ve all no doubt contributed to improving Amazon’s share price over the years, I decided to sign us up as an Amazon affiliate.
Those of you who’ve been sold on our Hayek advocacy - or who simply aspire to know more than Hevvie Kevvie [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Philosophy | Comments (21)

Breaking the Habit

January 11, 2007 – 12:53 pm

“You shouldn’t be allowed to sign yourself out of rehab,” the girl is saying, fair hair flying, finger pointing. “People just f*ck off when it gets too hard. You’ll never kick it that way.”
It’s Friday morning, time for “Moot” in a very unusual Queensland school. “Moot” - redolent of the genteel mock court cases engaged [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Personal liberty | Comments (72)

Guest post by Ron Kitching: Educate the Babblers

January 10, 2007 – 4:59 pm

Ron Kitching, Australian libertarian legend, has been a bit concerned about the quality of debate around these parts. To that end, he’s assembled a convenient classical liberal reading list for everyone to be going on with. He’s so far been reluctant to comment - despite having a password - so I suggested he put together [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Literature | Comments (41)

Some (Australian) Libertarian History

January 6, 2007 – 4:25 pm

Today I had the excellent fortune to meet Ron Kitching (left), life member of the Mont Pelerin Society and sponsor of Hayek’s month-long lecture tour to Australia in 1976. Ron is a Rockhampton local, with a lifetime’s experience in the mining industry, where he was a distinguished exploration drilling contractor. He still consults to the [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in History | Comments (149)

Opting out of Welfare

December 27, 2006 – 9:55 pm

I’m not usually a huge fan of internet humour, but this piece has been doing the rounds of the interwebs for a while; this version actually came to me via Liberal Democratic Party treasurer David Leyonhjelm, who (apart from sending the funny) also let me know that Peter Saunders (CIS) has recently suggested that the [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Politics, Public Policy | Comments (130)

Pinochet dead

December 11, 2006 – 10:34 am

At the risk of generating open warfare on this site, I thought an official notice may be appropriate in order to bring all the South American commenters into the one place. General Augusto Pinochet was the classic military impresario and junta strongman. He booted out a democratically elected government and killed his enemies on a [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Politics | Comments (385)

Hayek and Native Title

November 9, 2006 – 9:51 pm

This post was another of the pieces I wrote for Catallaxy before the great server crash, so I’ve decided to retrieve it. As I mentioned last time, it’s in the process of being worked into an academic paper; as I also mentioned, Professor Suri Ratnapala got me into thinking about law in this way, something [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Law | Comments (7)