What is the global commons and what does it need?
Tony Curzon Price
July 27th 2008
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* iCommons should be the confederation that serves the projects that constitute the global
Are oil prices rising because of semantics?A calm has returned to the economics blogosphere .... if not to the oil markets. Krugman saves his position by arguing that "speculation&
Here is an instructive comparison between economists and political realists:
First, the increasingly abstracted stock-flow models from Paul Krugman and Mark Thoma.
Second, a suggested account of the recent oil
A good summary of the positions by Mark Thoma (a bit of theory)Arnold Kling is not sure where to place his bets, but has a good counterfactual question to
Mark Thoma has a good summary of yesterday's econ-blogosphere debate on the speculation question. He ends up on the question of what single cause can account for the
The economics blogosphere is abuzz ... is the oil price being driven up by market fundamentals or by some sort of manipulative activity?Paul Krugman has a short theoretical piece here
Slippery oil prices
Slippery oil prices
Tony Curzon Price
June 23rd 2008
I wrote a piece on the oil price last week for The Spectator (there is an uncut version
Speculators ahoy
Fundamentalism and oil markets
Tony Curzon Price
June 14th 2008
In 1990, Jim Rogers, famed biker-trader, set off to circumscribe the globe astride a large motorcycle and with
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): I have discovered with great pleasure Julian Jaynes' rather controversial "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown fo the Bi-cameral Mind". A
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): A friend of mine tells this story of a first encounter with a French scientist, met under the building-sized replica of the DNA molecule in
Economics - roots and food
Tony Curzon Price
May 3rd 2008
Xenophon wrote the first economics book as a treatise on how an Athenian nobleman should best manage his estate.