:Fixed Point

An entertaining debate ensues over at The Economist, and in the comments at Marginal Revolution over whether the implications of applying of a zero discount rate in the Stern Report for the issue of abortion. Can it be consistent, asks the economist:
I am still chewing over the full import of the moral intuition that people […]

Let’s not discuss how I feel about having stayed up for all the Ashes matches, with a new baby (having manly volunteered to do the night feeds). Instead, I draw your attention to the most sensible diagnosis of our lamentable failings in Australia, from Matthew syed in the Times.
Those who believed that England’s victory in […]