The Price of Everything
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On Sunday, legendary singer Bob Dylan was the face and voice of the 2014 America Super Bowl commercials, lending his voice to Chobani and the Chrysler 200 advertisers. So Bob Dylan now writes songs to…
Prizes are a common feature on the cultural economy landscape. In Australia there is the famous Archibald Prize for portraiture, there are numerous prizes for literature and poetry, the AFI Awards in film…
A recent paper by five mathematical computer scientists at Indiana University (published in EMBO Reports, a forum for short papers in molecular biology) proposes a clever new model for science funding…
James Cameron is going to film the next three instalments of the Avatar franchise in New Zealand. He promises to spend at least NZ$500 million, employ thousands of Kiwis, host at least one red-carpet event…
What’s new in public finance you ask? Social impact bonds, that’s what. This is the leading edge of the social finance revolution. It just might make a big difference to Indigenous and remote Australia…
There is currently much ballyhoo – in the Murdoch Press at least – about the release of secret files on the salaries paid to the top talent at our ABC. Tony Jones, for instance, pulls down A$355,789, making…
So two things happened. First, Crown Resorts Limited – whose Executive Chairman is James Packer – was awarded an exclusive license by NSW State Premier Barry O’Farrell to operate the A$1.5 billion Barangaroo…
One basic difference between economists and the rest of the human population is how you answer the following question: What is the purpose of higher education? A non-cynical normal person answer is learning…
The name of this column is from Act III of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? [sitting on the back of a sofa] Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything and…