On March 28, I’ll be launching Eric Aaron’s latest book Market versus Nature: The social philosophy of Friedrich Hayek. The venue is:
Gleebooks – 49 Glebe Point Road
Time: 6pm for drinks before a 6.30pm start; finish by 8.30pm
Eric’s earlier books include What’s Left–which is a memoir, an evaluation of the failure of communism, and an attempt to [...]
Launch of Eric Aaron’s new book “Market versus Nature”
A new site for the Podcast & The Fabians Talk
Stuart Cameron’s new company Rife Media has started a Debtwatch Podcast page:
Rife Media’s Debtwatch Page
The Podcast will still be hosted here as well, but it will probably appear first on Rife Media’s page as Stu does the production.
Stu also produced a Podcast from the Fabian Society seminar on “Economic Challenges Facing the Rudd Government”, at [...]
The Economic Challenges Facing a Rudd Labor Government
The Fabian Society has organised a talk on the above topic for this Wednesday at Gleebooks:
When: 6.00 for 6.30pm, Wednesday 20 February 2007.
Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe.
Cost: Non-Fabians $10/$7. Members are free – please show your membership card to obtain free entry.
Contact: Bookings essential – Gleebooks website – Book online at [...]
Stevens is from Mars, Bernanke is from Venus?
Note to Subscribers: I have been on study leave in Europe for the last month, and get back to Sydney late on Monday February 4th. I will be available for comment from the morning of Tuesday February 5th.
Chart of the Month: Who’s having a housing bubble then?
A SMH article claimed that 17 out of 19 [...]
Talk on Debt and Financial Instability
I’m currently in Norway, and was invited to talk on the global debt crisis to a local discussion group. They videotaped the talk, and put it up on Google Video. The link is:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1375113008927627575
There is also a copy on my site–with the opening trivia about how I met my Norwegian host and fellow researcher Trond Andresen [...]
Soros’s Excellent Commentary on the crisis
I’ve been researching in Europe and too busy to maintain the blog for a while, for which I apologise. Hopefully I’ll get back to it when I return to Sydney next week. In the meantime, I had the following Soros article recommended to me, and it’s an excellent commentary on the credit crisis:
Soros on “The [...]
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