* Posts by Alex Prior

2 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Apr 2011

Worst movie poll screening delayed 7 days

Alex Prior

Late edition

I cannot believe that nobody nominated Beneath The Planet of the Apes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMuEnNxX1E8 A big budget blockbuster with every department contributing to an expensive wreck.

Save the planet: Stop the Greens

Alex Prior

Wrong Economics On First Page

Actually, the global financial crisis has fairly crushingly proved the point that there is one thing more efficient than a market economy, and that is a mixed economy, where the market does what it is good at, and government does what it is good at (long term planning and investment). I would argue that climate change requires the latter.

This argument (the bit about the mixed economy) is explicated in full in Prof John Quiggin's excellent "Zombie Economics" - worth reading, and challenges a fundamental assumption of the article.