Troppo Posts

2005-2008

2005

June 26  Five contributors, Ian Suttie, Karl and Charlotte Buhler, Bill Hutt and Peter Bauer.

June 29 Letter from Africa, an email journal with free market tendencies.

July 2 Salute to the Armadillo, and the Cambodian postage stamp of the prehistoric armadillo.

July 12  On the bright side. Less deaths in the London trains than at Waco in the US.

July 17  US aid to the Third World. More like 0.7% of GDP than the 0.15% usually cited.

July 18 Meddlesome clerics again, the British Anglican Consultative Council demands political criteria be applied to church investments.

July 19 (which) refs call? Bias in soccer umpiring in Nigeria.

July 19 Faithful to the last. English firm offers coffins in local football club colours.

July 21 Jon Hawkes and Circus Oz

July 21  Flannelled fools at work, harking back to the commercial motivation of early cricket tours

July 24  Killing in history - the cult of Che and the glorification of violence in history, with Popper's views on teaching history and science.

July 24 Child labour revisited - a nuanced study of the factory system.

July 26  Barzun on the use and abuse of art.

July 26 What about liberal education then? A meditation on the critera of liberal education.

August 2  Limpopo farmers with cell phones - low level technology in African development

August 9 More graveyards - a story about the graves of economists - von Thunen, Keynes, Malthus

August 30  Something a bit different, the fights of Les Darcy

August 31 National Service and Conscription - the pre-WWI scheme

Sept 19 International talk like a pirate day

Sept 21 Interview with a colleague of Feyerabend

Sept 23 Beyond Left and Right, crit of some chapters of David McKnight's book.

Oct 9 Extracts from the Social Change project at the Mercatus Center, George Mason Uni.

Oct 11  Even further beyond left and right, crit of the remaining chapters of the McKnight book.

Oct 17 The marriage of markets and morals. Michael Novak merges Catholicism and the Austrians.

Oct 26  Noel Pearson talks at CIS on the need for more action and a return to the bourgeoise virtues

Oct 26 Noel Pearson, his concerns about Aboriginal health care and alcohol abuse

Nov 20 The European miracle, Gerard Radnitzky on the taming of the state

Nov 27  Penton, writer, bohemian, journalist

Dec 6 Penton on line The Landtakers

Dec 15  Albert Jacka VC

Dec 17 Curves, science and commerce meet in weight control and fitness for women 

Dec 18 The windjammers, talk by marine artist

06

Jan 18 Joshua Smith the artist, celebrated at the Manly Gallery

Jan 26  A prize for Israel Kirzner, a leading economist of the Austrian school

Feb 5  Cartoons, censorship and civility. Second thoughts on unfettered free speech.

May 8 Talcott Parsons, integrating the human sciences

May 12 Call for AFL pundits

July 26  Peter Coleman on D H Lawrence

July 28 Lament of the non-statistician, a poem about econometrics

Aug 14 The power of statistics in sport

Aug 18 Defence of market liberalism for the Third World

Sept 12 Cedric Emanuel, bio fragment

Sept 13 Chap 1 of R G Collingwood's autobiography

Sept 28  Jarvie on Popper's "Social Turn"

October 2  Commentary on rugby league. The Strom wuz robbed!

Nov 2  Adam Smith on the notes

Nov 17 Lets hear it for uncle Milton

Dec 3  Lets hear it for R G Collingwood

Dec 15  Good news. Publication of the 2002 Vienna Popper conference papers.

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March

20   Something to make you choke on your weetbix, an anthropology of economists

May 1  Heinz Arndt, 1915-2002

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Sept

6  Why Labor rules from coast to coast - the legacy of conscription for Vietnam

8 Around the blogs

13 Ranking the economics blogs

13 Around the ether

15 On line resources for Critical Rationalism and the legacy of Karl Popper.

17 Inside Zimbabwe

17  John Gray, gadfly of liberalism

24  Unity in the state of disaster. A Lib-Lab coalition in NSW?

25  Ludwig von Mises.

30   Who is being bailed out. Who benefits?

Oct

2   200 years of Australian technology.

3  Rugby League 2008. Grand final preview.

9  Australian science and scientists.

9   Unpacking the sub-prime train wreck.

12  Moral philosophy on line. The Tanner Lectures.

18  Promoting critical thinking in schools.

22  The Great Depression and the New Deal.

23  Rules and Orders. The Dangers of ad hoc interventionism.

30  Jacques Barzun approaches 101.

Nov

9  Austrians surge in New Zealand.

15 Capitalism, Down but not Out. Oliver Hartwich op ed.

16  A Visitor from Zimbabwe.