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Attitudes Towards Regulation
Now that it appears that the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico has been sealed with “an effective cement plug” (in the words of an official BP statement), the Financial Times is reporting the results of their commission to Harris Interactive...
Freedom of Choice?
The “editorial page” of the current (September) issue of Consumer Reports offers an interesting comment on the hazardous (if not deadly) risks associated with many dietary supplements discussed in their “Dangerous Supplements”...The Government We Deserve Or the Bill of Goods We’ve been Sold?
The cover story of the latest (September) issue of Consumer Reports should have a chilling effect on many of its readers (if it does not scare them to death first). The editors of this magazine have a rather good reputation for avoiding alarmism unless...Learning From the Maciel Scandal
Having reflected on the “origins” argument in “The Mission of Father Maciel,” Alma Guillermoprieto’s analysis of the Maciel scandal in the latest New York Review, I feel it only fair to apply similar reasoning to her conclusion....Preventive Maintenance
It is hard to read the opening remarks of Paul Volker’s recent address to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, whose transcript appears in the latest issue of The New York Review, without feeling that “I told you so”...Freedom to Brand?
This morning brought news that the latest attack on the cigarette industry has come from Australia. Here is the basic story as Al Jazeera English edited it from their wire sources: Australia is set to ban branding, logos, promotional text and colourful...It Takes a Village to Build a Network
They do things differently on the other side of the pond. Our own consciousness industry tends to promote the proposition that the British are quaint, naive, and out of touch with the latest thinking, particularly where matters of business and technology...In the Beginning Was …
Yesterday I found myself taking a rather provocative position on the Passover holiday, initiated not so much by my own atheist inclinations as by the coincidence of a BBC report on labor conditions in today’s state of Israel. This happens to...
