Three Cheers for the Private Sector!
"An experiment in social organization: trying to get one's laptop socket repaired by (a) the non-profit sector (U.C. Berkeley), or (b) the private sector (Apple Computer)."

Another British Historian Calls Me an
"Another British historian--Robert Skidelsky this time--calls me an "Aunt Sally." What is it with these people? I don't think it is a compliment. The relevant parts of the new--added--preface to the book called _Fighting for Britain_ in Britain and _Fighting for Freedom_ in Merka:"

The New Economy, Intellectual Property, and Adam Smith's Economics I
"Adam Smith's market economics has fit the world so well for the past three centuries because of a particularly good fit between the characteristics of valued items and the requirements--excludability, rivalry, and transparency--of market efficiency"

Declining Quality of Nigerian Oil Scam Emails
"Another worrisome example of the declining quality of Nigerian oil scam emails. Whatever is the world coming to?"

The New Economy in Historical Perspective
"A first draft of an article, big in scope, given as an after-dinner talk at the Chateau Vaudrieul in Montreal"

Is a free market economy a prerequisite for open source?
"Open source is effectively an interesting post-capitalist mode of production. But can it only flourish under free market systems?"