Policy Rules and Uncertainty

In a recent speech by Bill Poole made several comments on the usefulness of policy announcements.

Key Words: ECO301

Intellectual Property

Imagine how fast standards of living could rise if more people did things like the BBC, or MIT instead of like the MPAA, the RIAA, or Microsoft. The difference is between those who understand their intellectual property and those that don't, or rather those who have very little intellectual property and fear they'll never be able to create anymore.

Key Words: ECO120, ECO305

Blogging

This is just a quick link to a paragraph by Quiggin on what he wants his blog to accomplish. I too had hoped this might serve as a database of ideas, interesting articles, etc. I think I'll need to switch to moveable type to accomplish everything I want to, but this is a start.

Hiatus

This has been quite a long time off, the semester is about to start and I need to commit some time to blogging. Look for class info and other musings in the near future.