Archive for July, 2007

Competition?

July 30, 2007

Current mainstream theories of competition are wrongheaded, harmful, have to go and are basically economic quackery.
Here is an example of the enemy:
“Well-designed competition law, effective law enforcement and competition-based economic reform promote increased efficiency, economic growth and employment for the benefit of all.
OECD work on competition law and policy actively encourages decision-makers in government [...]

Future Production And The Unconquerable City.

July 24, 2007

Topics: The Cheetah, Infrastructural goods, lengthening of the production structure (Austrian Economics), analogy to the conveyer-line in a factory, problems specific to an actual conveyer.
Just-In-Time versus just-ahead of time on the long conveyer. The total impossibility of even a simularity-lite without private infrastructure…… Pricing and strategy to morphing towards private infrastructure, Unheard of productive capacity [...]

A COOLER MAN THAN I AM (GUNGA DIN)

July 23, 2007

From Catallaxy:
“Bird, where do you come up with this?”
A buddy of mine got a job at the Melbourne Zoo.
And he told me about this Gorilla.
Anyway I went an saw the Gorilla.
My idea of cool at the time was Fonzie in Happy days THE FIRST SERIES ONLY.
This I must emphasise. Only the first series of Happy [...]

Pinky-In-The-Middle/Icing On the Cake.

July 22, 2007

Reworked from Stoats blog (a post no doubt soon-to-be LIQUIDATED):
The global warming movement has the structure of an old-time communist front. In that the communist idea of democratic-centralism is one in which: once the vote is taken…….. total obedience is expected all the way down the line. Expected AND OBTAINED. The very people who voted [...]

Yobbo-Wronged…Parkinsons-Law…. And The Public-Service Wonderland.

July 20, 2007

Lately I’ve been fleshing out, over at Catallaxy the further horrid effects of taxing profits… that might not come to mind in economic models. I’ve spied a hole in the thinking of the Austrian Economists…. in that they haven’t applied certain principles of agency and principles of institutional dysfunction that distorts actual organisational behaviour.
But its [...]

Milos PDF Destroys The Watts/Per/Square-Metre Paradigm

July 5, 2007

This aint no finished thread. I’m just collecting DATA-for-LATER.
Milos pdf refers to this one:
http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/publications/preprints/pp2006/MPA2001.pdf
Make no mistake about it. The watts-per-square-metre paradigm is well and truly wrong. But the problem is there doesn’t seem to be a better model out there to take its place.
Its defeated and so therefore the global warming scare ought to be [...]