Purchasing Computers - Letter to CT 29th Nov

The Rudd government is about to consider how to put a billion dollars worth of computers on school desks. The preferred method for government purchases is to let a tender for the purchase. In parallel to the tender approach it is suggested that the government set up an open electronic market place specifically and exclusively [...]

chpt 4 methodology 121107

A methodology for policy implementation

The antecedents of special currencies; Optimisation algorithms and economics; The essentials of trading systems; Eight steps to spending though trading
In the first three chapters we have looked at the Tragedy of the Commons, or the inherent conflict between self interest and the provision of public goods. We’ve explained the [...]

Affordable Housing

History has shown that the house market has a tendency to cycle between boom and bust. In boom times the value of a house is greater than that justified by the rent the house can obtain. That is the asset class of housing becomes inflated when compared to other assets and with [...]