Monthly Archives: November 2006
How not to delay Christmas shopping – the costly way
Christmas comes but once a year – so how come it seems to take me by surprise as far as gift shopping goes? Of course, despite the advance warning, I never contemplate doing the shopping in September, partly because I … Continue reading
Resolving an environmental crisis
No, not Stern, but from this week’s Time Out comes a story (sorry, no link) perfectly illustrating the idea of trade-offs and unlike the usual environment-vs-business conflict, this has at its heart the conflict over two environmental goals. “…proposals to … Continue reading
Drowning by numbers
I have no reason to doubt that the writers at The Economist, and Jane Galt, are truly educated people, if only because, as George Bernard Shaw noted, the mark of intellect is a passion for statistics. The Economist’s new blog … Continue reading