Readers of this blog and graph fans in general might enjoy my new blog, The Arc. The Arc is dedicated to examining AFL football through the medium of graphs.
It should be obvious by now, given that I haven’t posted in about 9 months, but this blog is over. Thanks for reading!
Here is the blog’s rise and fall, as measured by page views per month:
Ross Gittins’ column in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald was devoted to the topic of minimum wages. Among other things, he explained the ‘dynamic monopsony’ model of labour markets. These models are associated in particular with Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, who set out the theory at length in his 2003 book Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets.
I’m currently taking another break from Twitter, so I thought I’d post some links on here to interesting things I’ve read recently:
The latest HILDA report is out! The HILDA survey is an extremely valuable resource – it asks a large sample of people a whole bunch of questions about income, family life, and other things, and tracks respondents over time. We learn things from HILDA that we can’t learn from any other Australian data source.
Joe Hockey on welfare spending:
This year the Australian government will spend on average over $6,000 on welfare for every man, woman and child in the country.
Joe Hockey takes on his imagined opponents:
The truth is governments have never been able to achieve equality of outcomes. Some governments try but they always fail. Only in a closed economy, based on old style socialism, can a government hope to deliver uniform equality of outcomes.
We have moved on.
As a result, Government can only hope to provide equality of opportunity.
Does he really think his political opponents aspire to complete “equality of outcomes”? Or does he just think that his audience will buy this false dichotomy? Is he correct, do people on the centre-right really think those on the centre-left want complete equality of outcomes?
