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I have to get one of those helmet cameras
Though that, truth be known, would require wearing a helmet. Several times over years of cycling in London, I’ve had groups of teenage boys either throw rocks at me, or give chase (with what aim? I...
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A paper on parking and walkable retail
Here’s my recent working paper Small, local and cheap? Walkable and car-oriented retail in competition. Parts are a bit technical but most of it is policy and, I’d like to think, compulsively readable.
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Eric Hobsbawm – late interview
When I was first at Birkbeck, this guy was still a regular in the staff canteen – so I must be getting on a bit myself! The interviewer is the current Master of Birkbeck, David Latchman. The revelation...
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Why I left America
It’s really depressing to be a pedestrian in an American city. I am reminded by Streetsblog’s contest to find the Worst Intersection in America. Now they’ve announced the winner. Well done, Omaha!
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The number of dips is not really an issue when you’re flat-lining
Via Jonathan Portes (“Not the Treasury View”), here’s NIESR’s latest chart showing – for the UK – the path of recession and recovery in various previous downturns:
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Parking & driving vs. living & working
In Atlantic Cities, Chris McCahill and Norman Garrick report a negative relationship between population and job growth (living, working), and driving within the city. This they attribute to a simple...
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“Updating tax rules to cope with the digital age”– is there an app for that?
“OECD calls for crackdown on tax avoidance by multinationals” says the Guardian. The report Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting outlines the problems national governments now have taxing big...
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Italian election aftermath: Very Serious People vs. Clowns
Robert Waldmann has a pretty good account. Waldmann is an American economist who works in Rome. For readers less familiar with current American political discourse, his use of the terms “serious...
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Employee ownership meets outsourcing
John Lewis’s outsourced cleaners are striking for a living wage. Recent developments are covered by Liberal Conspiracy and London Progressive Journal. The dispute has been going on for a while: here’s...
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Where executives take the largest pay cuts
A nice account from Mondragon (by Giles Tremlett in the Guardian) of how employee ownership can help reduce the impact of recession depression.
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The Control Revolution
Brad DeLong helpfully links to Cosma Shalizi’s 1995 review of (the now late) James Beniger’s great book, The Control Revolution (first published 1986). It’s always worth recommending, though of...
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Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To...
Glynn Moody has the story. Let it not be said that intellectual property rights are not respected in China – they seem to be playing the game just as written!
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Clean energy jobs in US grow despite dis-incentives
The growth is reported by Climate Progress, picking up a report from the San Antonio Business Journal, whose reporter consulted the actual report by Environmental Entrepreneurs. This happens despite...
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Dodgy journals go for gold
“Gold Open Access” – where authors pay to have their papers published, and made freely available on line – is one response to the well documented predatory practices of commercial journal publishers...
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Cyprus bailout: stupidity, short sightedness, or something else?
This from Cyprus.com; the same posting at Naked Capitalism. I don’t know the details but the details I’m familiar with from other sources do check. One of Naked Capitalism’s tags for the post is...
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I know a fox who would really like a job as a consultant on chicken coop...
A few weeks back I linked to this Guardian piece, upbeat about the OECD’s sudden interest in reducing, rather than abetting, corporate tax avoidance. I posted that because it was a nice surprise,...
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In paradise, build on the parking lot
Now cars only, soon no cars In a more civilized country this would be entirely unremarkable, but in the city of my birth it’s a sign of great progress: for at least the second time in a year, the San...
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Piracy as opportunity
Many westerners have scolded me when I’ve told stories of the obscene amounts of music, movies and software I have pirated. What they fail to understand is that I used this mode of distribution for the...
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Cyprus: banking busted, tax haven lost?
The Tax Justice Network dishes dirt on what the “financial services” industry of Cyprus was selling. So will the EU really close this business down in Cyprus? And will it roll on from that to the many...
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