On the economics, about micro-, macro- and the economics of ideas.
Suburbia
I watched “Humans” last night, a big touch of Blade Runner, the film not the book, if you ask me, with Ruislip playing the role of rain drenched LA. …
Four great teachers
When I saw this picture of Labour’s candidates for Leader, I couldn’t resist, in the words of the song, “Red fly the Banners-o!”; four for the four great teachers.
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Not so fast
The UK High Court granted Big Music a judicial review against the legalisation of private copying of music; it requires compensation for rights holders. The Government & Parliament’s fault was not to research the claims that the loss of income was trivial and already factored into the price. So two major principles established or overturned, music can only be rented, and more importantly, Parliament is not sovereign it must research its laws. (That’s a new one!) …
Changed times
The changing nature and political alignment of the Parliamentary Labour Party is viewed through their 2010 & 2015 nominations for Leader in this article at Left Futures. While their headline which emphasises that Liz Kendall is the inheritor of David Miliband’s base, there are other interesting nominations being made; John Cruddas journey for one. The choice for the Kinnocratic Sensibilists is stark. …
Copyright and relevance
On #r4today, they claim computer games are bigger than films and music combined. Really? What impact for copyright? (From the rest of the article, this might include hardware.) …
Switchers
Labour’s leadership nominations show some interesting switches from last time, John Cruddas switches from David Miliband to Jeremy Corbyn. Wonder if that’s how he’s going to vote. …
Cinema times
I am loading up my new android phone with the apps from the old one but when it comes to cinema schedules, the old Orange applications has gone; they’re no longer funding it. Their replacement is ‘compare the market’ and their stupid meerkats but you need to be a customer. I am not! 🙁
mV=PQ
More Macro-economics at the Register! The short answer is that it did. Tim explores Friedman’s mV=PQ and the newish phenomenon that V varies; it’d be a bit shit if it varied as a result of changes in m, but Tim concludes that QE proves there is a monetary policy option to business cycle management. Something that had been thought to be unavailable since 1936. …
gcal
Excellent, I didn’t know you could put HTML into a Google calendar entry, it seems you can. Hyperlink here, we come!
Gold
Just checking out the s.p. on Brown selling Britain’s Gold and comparing it with the coalition’s sale of the Post Office. Over a two year period, the loss of gold value, minus the appreciation of the alternate assets purchased is pretty much what the coalition splashed up the wall on privatising the Royal Mail.