Uber drivers are workers and not self-employed, UK Supreme Court rules
Preferential lobbying: Money talks … loudly (Part 2 of 4)
Preferential lobbying drives powerlessness, environmental destruction and even in conventional economics is grossly inefficient. Parts 2 and 3 examine how it happens. If your electoral system is open to significant funding by the wealthy, then politicians get bought by lobbyists. And lobby firms are typically made up of former politicians and officials with substantial address books.
Boyos banished when Barangaroo boomerangs back
But the fact is that a reformed Crown board will be sailing full steam ahead to take up the licence from an unresisting NSW government.
“Work on things that aren’t prestigious.”
How to get cancelled in Iceland, alternatively what not to look for in your supermarket’s PR director
What do jobless men do all day? And the undermotivated apostate
Vitalik on prediction markets, smart contract risk, epistemic humility, and more. Like most Vitalik, it is too good to excerpt.
Ezra Klein on work and child allowances (NYT). I agree with some but not all of this, in any case it is already obvious how much Ezra is in the very top tier of NYT columnists after only a few pieces. Every part of it is an actual argument, supported by evidence of some kind or another.
Money Conquers Fear Is the Lesson of Covid Markets Bloomberg. Cf 1 John 4:18
Column: Central bank ‘punch bowl’ still brimming for markets Reuters
How to Boil Water Without Power or Water The Brockovich Report