Latest entries
No need, no gain, no gloryAug 26 2010
Academy of alarm
Aug 19 2010
Public data from Google
Aug 02 2010
Feather duster ambush
Jul 23 2010
Kay on the theory of value
Jul 21 2010
Led by lunatics
Jul 21 2010
A climate ambush
Jul 18 2010
Watch this
Jul 16 2010
Krugman’s take on protection
Jul 13 2010
Trade ‘imbalances’ are misleading
Jul 12 2010
Why the Doha Round is failing
Jul 10 2010
Revisiting the climate evidence
Jun 29 2010
Forward to the past with the NBN
Jun 29 2010
Why we should pull out of Afghanistan now
Jun 23 2010
ACTA is an attack on the WTO
Jun 16 2010
A whiff of luddism
Jun 02 2010
Chinese wage pressures
May 28 2010
Positions diverge on Doha negotiations
May 27 2010
Did the ‘stimulus’ work?
May 15 2010
Failure of the ‘Third Way’
May 06 2010
Resources tax mess
May 06 2010
World Bank opens its data
Apr 28 2010
Cardiovascular risks factors ‘unknown’
Apr 22 2010
Do you feel safer now?
Apr 22 2010
What the ash cloud meant for Kenya
Apr 22 2010
Tidying up your music files
Apr 20 2010
Auto rip multiple audio CDs in OS X
Apr 18 2010
Counterfeiting data is phoney
Apr 15 2010
Schubert and the GATT
Apr 15 2010
Where cane furniture comes from
Apr 15 2010
EU launches debate on farm subsidies
Apr 15 2010
Evidence on State hospital administration
Apr 15 2010
Economics’ standard model defective
Apr 14 2010
Return of industrial policy
Apr 13 2010
NZ Apples, at last! But…
Apr 12 2010
The cost of Renminbi adjustment
Apr 12 2010
Imaginary consensus
Apr 02 2010
The evidence for ‘stolen generations’
Apr 01 2010
Let’s end WTO’s Doha agony
Apr 01 2010
World Opera season programs
Mar 31 2010
The limits of WTO litigation
Mar 27 2010
Rotten ideas about the renminbi
Mar 18 2010
A call for evidence-based policy
Mar 18 2010
Offensive teenagers
Mar 18 2010
Motor vehicle subsidies wasted on Ford
Mar 18 2010
Jobs and Exports in the NICS
Mar 17 2010
Trade-war not likely
Mar 15 2010
The crash of AF447
Mar 06 2010
Simple deductions about climate change
Mar 05 2010
Apple’s patent protectionism
Mar 04 2010
Tea leaves
Feb 26 2010
Discounting the Intergenerational Report
Feb 12 2010
EU ramps up farm subsidies
Feb 11 2010
Shorting common sense
Feb 06 2010
Chinese savings rate & the gender balance
Feb 06 2010
Variable winds
Feb 06 2010
Monckton Lecture, Melbourne Feb 1, 2010
Jan 28 2010
Are the BRICS ready to lead?
Jan 20 2010
U.S. looks for a ‘critical mass’ climate deal
Jan 15 2010
Elaborating the Ag. travesty
Jan 14 2010
Lamy’s assessment of Copenhagen
Jan 14 2010
Rahmstorf rebuffed
Jan 12 2010
Spiralling down
Jan 07 2010
Multilateralism not a ‘single undertaking’
Jan 06 2010
Cheering for ‘democracy’
Jan 05 2010
The ‘great big tax’
Dec 29 2009
How the deal was done
Dec 28 2009
Global governance in the aughties
Dec 27 2009
Plurilateralism… get used to it
Dec 20 2009
Good idea or insidious threat?
Dec 08 2009
Don’t tell the trees
Dec 08 2009
Aliens vs Censors
Dec 07 2009
What explains tariff levels?
Dec 04 2009
Airstrip One lands
Nov 19 2009
Pikiness has a price
Nov 17 2009
Let’s look at the data
Oct 30 2009
Why Australia should not adopt an ETS
Oct 13 2009
Will the G-20 save Doha?
Sep 27 2009
Agriculture in the AUSFTA
Aug 26 2009
iPhone as a media center
Aug 20 2009
Century trends in Victorian temperatures
Aug 17 2009
The Emissisions Trading bill madness
Aug 10 2009
Eonomic integration of Pacific Islands
Aug 03 2009
Mortimer success
Jul 31 2009
The ABS explains “trend estimates”
Jul 31 2009
FT iPhone App
Jul 23 2009
Temperatures for June in Victoria
Jul 14 2009
Remove the buy-local tax on books
Jul 14 2009
Market and PPP measures of GDP
Jul 14 2009
Caloric restriction diet doesn’t work
Jul 13 2009
Carbon tariffs, permits and subsidies
Jul 09 2009
The life of Robert McNamara
Jul 07 2009
Modeling a Doha agreement on agriculture
Jul 07 2009
How bad is global deforestation?
Jul 05 2009
Another small step
Jul 03 2009
Ex-PMs attack Defense White Paper
Jul 03 2009
Global Trade Alert
Jul 03 2009
Critical mass agreement vs the Doha Round
Jul 02 2009
Is the U.S.A. really warming?
Jun 29 2009
Let’s hope this means more clarity
Jun 26 2009
Manufacturing copyright ‘consensus’
Jun 26 2009
Opening food markets in a CM agreement
Jun 24 2009
A Critical Mass Agreement on cereals trade
Jun 17 2009
Investment barriers stuff-up China relations
Jun 15 2009
Modeling ‘critical mass’ trade agreements
Jun 15 2009
Temperatures for May in Victoria
Jun 14 2009
Liberty upheld in France
Jun 11 2009
Readers pay for publishers’ protection
Jun 09 2009
Messages from AF447
Jun 05 2009
Budget transparency turns murky
May 28 2009
Two tracks out of the Doha wasteland?
May 28 2009
U.S. breaks G-20 promise on trade
May 24 2009
Risk and liberty
May 23 2009
Plimer review: more from G Schmidt
May 23 2009
U.S. and Global Temperatures: a correction
May 22 2009
Scary pictures of a deep recession
May 19 2009
Plimer’s Heaven + Earth
May 18 2009
Two strikes from recession, not three
May 16 2009
Into the debt abyss
May 16 2009
Forking MYSQL?
May 15 2009
China’s FTA strategy
May 15 2009
India against ‘green protectionism’
May 15 2009
Shadow U.S. Trade Committee
May 14 2009
What if WTO forgot about the rules?
May 14 2009
Does the data show ‘epidemic’ obesity risks?
May 12 2009
They’re baaaak
May 08 2009
Anti-dumping actions on the rise
May 08 2009
More transparency in the Federal budget
May 08 2009
Media wrong on unemployment, again
May 07 2009
Trade, cars and the great recession
May 06 2009
Twitter test of defense policy
May 05 2009
Temperatures in Victoria in April
May 05 2009
How creepy can big Pharma be?
May 04 2009
Lohengrin
May 02 2009
Malcolm Turnbull on Chinalco’s bid for Rio
May 02 2009
Thailand’s spiral
Apr 30 2009
The facts on flu
Apr 29 2009
ADB’s Not-So-Capital Idea
Apr 29 2009
Peru jumps the China FTA queue
Apr 29 2009
She Blogged By Night
Apr 29 2009
Was the Pirate Bay judgement biassed?
Apr 29 2009
Quibble over ‘slippage’ on protection
Apr 28 2009
Interview in the Boao Asia Forum
Apr 28 2009
Dawn, ANZAC day 2009
Apr 26 2009
China’s gold
Apr 25 2009
Fund’s gloom overdone?
Apr 23 2009
An economic ‘theory of everything’
Apr 22 2009
Soon, everything’s a phone
Apr 22 2009
China worries about U.S. carbon tariffs
Apr 22 2009
Open the sky to competition
Apr 22 2009
A framework for Chinese investment
Apr 21 2009
Website engine in new hands
Apr 21 2009
Melbourne in autumn
Apr 20 2009
Evidence on obesity and HIV prevention
Apr 20 2009
CO2 not like ozone gasses
Apr 20 2009
Bad plus bad equals worse
Apr 17 2009
The impact of Fiji’s devaluation
Apr 16 2009
Razzing the Congress party
Apr 16 2009
Life in rural China
Apr 16 2009
Where will Kirk take the Doha entreprise?
Apr 15 2009
Australia’s information deficit
Apr 15 2009
India says ‘no’
Apr 15 2009
Evidence and muddling through
Apr 15 2009
Business and precaution
Apr 14 2009
The return on Ruddnet
Apr 14 2009
Strategic outlook for Australia
Apr 13 2009
Micro-macro
Apr 12 2009
“What is to be done?”
Apr 11 2009
How bad is polar ice loss?
Apr 11 2009
Time, void? They’re 4-letter words!
Apr 10 2009
French internet law blocked, for now
Apr 10 2009
Illustrated USDA economic research
Apr 09 2009
Is it a V or an L-shaped recession?
Apr 09 2009
Piracy and privacy
Apr 09 2009
Jackassery
Apr 09 2009
Growth rate of regional trade agreements
Apr 08 2009
Summary of the copyright trade agreement
Apr 08 2009
Senator Conroy finds his internet filter
Apr 07 2009
A spoon-full of toxin
Apr 06 2009
Renminbi reserve currency?
Apr 06 2009
Pumpkin Eater
Apr 04 2009
G20 communiqué an improvement
Apr 03 2009
Yikes, a gold mine!
Apr 02 2009
A WTO ‘code’ on carbon tariffs
Apr 02 2009
Australian share market fall compared
Apr 02 2009
China’s monetary policies
Apr 01 2009
Lawless streets of Port Moresby
Apr 01 2009
A climate rebuttal
Apr 01 2009
How to manage without targets
Apr 01 2009
Rodrik’s many recipes
Mar 31 2009
Competitiveness of U.S. agriculture
Mar 31 2009
Gutsy
Mar 31 2009
Where’s the evidence?
Mar 30 2009
Sunday excursion: image workflow
Mar 29 2009
The Quiet Coup
Mar 29 2009
Credible rejection of Chinese mine bid?
Mar 28 2009
Bans on the parallel import of books
Mar 27 2009
Volcanic explosion in Alaska
Mar 27 2009
Guessing game
Mar 27 2009
Cap-and-trade to fund Obama’s tax cuts
Mar 26 2009
Public Policy and the Payments System
Mar 26 2009
An uptick in US demand
Mar 26 2009
Lu Kewen given his orders?
Mar 24 2009
Empty words won’t limit the ‘wriggle room’
Mar 24 2009
58 years of Victorian temperatures
Mar 23 2009
PC inquiry into anti-dumping
Mar 23 2009
Can the G20 get Doha done?
Mar 20 2009
Sheridan scandalized
Mar 19 2009
A tangle of carbon taxes
Mar 19 2009
Australia not at ‘most risk’ of warming
Mar 18 2009
Bailouts & crime as redistribution
Mar 18 2009
Teachers’ kits on WTO - Keeping the peace
Mar 17 2009
Ruddmobile
Mar 17 2009
Rodrik’s Plan B for global finance
Mar 17 2009
An empty G20 communique
Mar 16 2009
UK plan to raise price of alcohol
Mar 15 2009
Deceptive climate headline
Mar 14 2009
Asean-Australia-NZ Free Trade Agreement
Mar 13 2009
The truth about employment trends
Mar 13 2009
The roots of capitalism
Mar 13 2009
Why the EUA speaks Spanish
Mar 13 2009
Myopic NBN economics
Mar 12 2009
Feb 09 Temperature in Victoria
Mar 12 2009
Protection by another name
Mar 12 2009
Dolphin-Tuna: here we go again…
Mar 12 2009
Cleaning up space junk
Mar 11 2009
Would web surveillance of protection work?
Mar 10 2009
Banana ban breached not broken
Mar 10 2009
Finding data on WTO Agriculture agreements
Mar 09 2009
Can the G20 halt ‘murky’ protectionism?
Mar 08 2009
Slip-sliding summitry
Mar 02 2009
Evidence-free stimulus
Mar 01 2009
Signs good and bad
Feb 26 2009
Effect of a market ‘fix’...
Feb 23 2009
Trade policy in the Pacific
Feb 23 2009
Next round of trade protection (Part II)
Feb 22 2009
Case for due diligence in public policy
Feb 22 2009
The next round of trade protection
Feb 19 2009
Climate ‘tipping’ points fall down
Feb 19 2009
Facing the facts (about banks)
Feb 19 2009
Transparency as stimulus
Feb 19 2009
Spring-time for state captialists
Feb 18 2009
The evidence on cap-and-trade
Feb 18 2009
A coal quiz
Feb 17 2009
Naive forecasts outperform IPCC
Feb 17 2009
Staticulation on rainfall from the BOM
Feb 17 2009
Obama’s science advisor hates science
Feb 17 2009
Nationalism and foreign investment policy
Feb 16 2009
Why don’t they say what they mean?
Feb 15 2009
Avoiding current account crises
Feb 14 2009
Diving into… Dromography
Feb 13 2009
Teacher’s Kit on WTO — Trade in Goods
Feb 13 2009
No role for the FIRB in Rio
Feb 12 2009
Two theories of recession
Feb 12 2009
Evidence that shorting ban “a mistake”
Feb 11 2009
Costs and benefits of trade
Feb 10 2009
Little evidence fires due to warming
Feb 10 2009
Rodrik re-inventing the WTO’s wheel
Feb 09 2009
The fiscal stimulus as ‘experiment’
Feb 09 2009
The fresh fruit mafia
Feb 08 2009
What the carbon caps will cost
Feb 08 2009
The last time it reached 115°
Feb 07 2009
Gary Banks on evidence-based policy
Feb 05 2009
Should you be worried about salt?
Feb 05 2009
Keep your money in a sock
Feb 04 2009
A G-20 protection standstill
Feb 04 2009
Trade agreements and trade policy
Feb 03 2009
World trade: it’s not the 1930s
Feb 02 2009
Trade outlook in context
Jan 30 2009
Teachers Kits on WTO
Jan 29 2009
Victorian temperature fell in 2008
Jan 29 2009
Recognition of R
Jan 29 2009
Bailouts could stifle recovery
Jan 28 2009
Bartering for food ‘security’
Jan 27 2009
EU incentives for milk production
Jan 25 2009
Export subsidies: there they go again
Jan 25 2009
Twenty-five years
Jan 25 2009
Now it’s a competition
Jan 21 2009
Agricultural incentives database
Jan 21 2009
The Doha endgame
Jan 21 2009
Mandarin or doublespeak?
Dec 23 2008
A better way ahead for WTO
Dec 18 2008
EC cooling on Global Warming?
Dec 16 2008
Emission controls not warranted by facts
Dec 16 2008
Rug-man on climate haircut
Dec 14 2008
Aus exports at current prices
Dec 08 2008
A Pisgah sight of the Doha deal
Dec 08 2008
Professors prosecute protectionism
Dec 06 2008
A better way to negotiate on agriculture
Dec 04 2008
Anti-NAFTA Congressman for U.S. Trade Rep?
Dec 04 2008
Suppose the SWFs got cold feet?
Dec 04 2008
The world is not flat
Nov 29 2008
The WTO’s objectives
Nov 26 2008
Transition to a non-carbon economy
Nov 21 2008
Temperatures in Victoria
Nov 19 2008
Share the love
Nov 17 2008
How hot has it been in Victoria?
Nov 16 2008
Why ‘Bretton Woods’ bis won’t happen
Nov 11 2008
Memoir of Keynes
Nov 09 2008
A modest proposal for the ‘G-20’ summit
Nov 09 2008
Things that don’t change
Nov 08 2008
Automobile tariff cut irrelevant
Sep 16 2008
Dissenters Day
Sep 11 2008
Bombs or bridges?
Sep 10 2008
Garnaut Review Economic Model
Sep 05 2008
Drought in the “Sunburnt Country”
Sep 05 2008
Precautionary principle, misleading and undemocratic
Sep 05 2008
Chroming the Internet
Sep 02 2008
Democrat Convention
Aug 27 2008
The Panic of 2007
Aug 27 2008
SPS database
Aug 27 2008
The unravelling trade consensus
Aug 26 2008
An american preoccupation
Aug 26 2008
Foreign direct investment approvals
Aug 26 2008
Weaning and whining
Aug 16 2008
“Sensitive” farm quotas revealed
Aug 14 2008
Differences over the ‘revival’ of WTO negotiations
Aug 14 2008
Next steps for agriculture agreements
Aug 13 2008
Australian food trade barriers revealed
Aug 13 2008
Glimpses of a micro reform program
Aug 10 2008
There could be four
Aug 10 2008
Where our $70m went
Aug 08 2008
Farmers unhappy about CSIRO drought ‘alarmism’
Aug 07 2008
CSIRO Drought Model ‘fails’
Aug 06 2008
Designing a carbon tax
Aug 06 2008
Krugman loses his kool
Aug 04 2008
No need for alarm about diet
Aug 03 2008
Holly Golightly
Aug 02 2008
Doha defeated by contrary goals, rear-view mandate
Aug 02 2008
Go back? Go forward? Take a powder and lie down?
Aug 01 2008
Insiders advise against car subsidies
Jul 31 2008
Doha round autopsy
Jul 31 2008
The collapse of the Doha Round negotiations
Jul 30 2008
Spencer’s ‘smoking gun’
Jul 23 2008
Monckton’s litany
Jul 18 2008
CSIRO’s (ab)use of intellectual property
Jul 18 2008
Improving the WTO’s trade framework
Jul 18 2008
This is how ‘targets’ hit back
Jul 18 2008
Another Galilean ‘dissenter’
Jul 18 2008
Sub-prime not a failure of ‘globalization’
Jul 17 2008
Argument for ‘least cost’ emissions policy
Jul 17 2008
It’s not just China, India
Jul 16 2008
The G-Other
Jul 14 2008
Climate cure more costly than disease?
Jul 14 2008
The end of ‘consensus’ on globalization?
Jul 13 2008
Whistling in an ill-wind
Jul 08 2008
A valentine in July
Jul 07 2008
Assessing Garnaut’s recommendations
Jul 06 2008
You need a model?
Jul 04 2008
The ‘fat bomb’
Jun 25 2008
Global emission targets: here we go
Jun 24 2008
McCain and Obama on ethanol subsidies and tariffs
Jun 23 2008
Six out of ten in UK doubt climate change is ‘settled science’
Jun 22 2008
More signs of Doha Round’s demise
Jun 21 2008
Obama re-designs his message on trade
Jun 21 2008
Poles of the trading system
Jun 20 2008
Sea level rising by ‘paddling’ levels over a century
Jun 19 2008
Aids campaign a moral panic
Jun 15 2008
Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness
Jun 14 2008
The empricist’s telescope
Jun 12 2008
Science, dogma and dissent: Ross Garnaut’s Heinz Arndt lecture
Jun 09 2008
A ‘secret’ copyright treaty
Jun 05 2008
Real food price below historic high
Jun 04 2008
Easterly vs the Growth Commission
Jun 02 2008
The end of the Doha Round
Jun 01 2008
Melbourne in autumn
Jun 01 2008
An autumn afternoon in Melbourne
May 31 2008
High food prices accelerate structural change in Europe
May 28 2008
The net benefit of emissions controls
May 27 2008
An encouraging Growth Report
May 23 2008
Another tricky dick
May 23 2008
Democrat trade policies would hurt low-income Americans
May 22 2008
David Brooks: The Farm Bill
May 21 2008
Health entitlements threaten US long-term growth
May 21 2008
Obama makes Bush look good
May 16 2008
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
May 14 2008
“F**k” and the OED
May 11 2008
Climate models do not justify even precautionary action
May 11 2008
More trade horrors from the US campaign trail
May 11 2008
Farewell to John Cargher
May 01 2008
Does trade with China help the poor?
Apr 27 2008
Australia’s export performance—should we be worried?
Apr 19 2008
A ‘magic’ recipe for global food shortages
Apr 17 2008
Obama trapped in the ‘campaign bubble’
Apr 15 2008
New Zealand copyright reform
Apr 11 2008
A foolish overreaction
Apr 07 2008
Would ‘critical mass’ agreements in WTO be ‘fissile’ or ‘fusional’?
Apr 07 2008
Obama would have opposed NAFTA, CAFTA and China’s membership of WTO
Apr 06 2008
Solar-cycle link to cloud cover questioned
Apr 04 2008
Statistical analysis of Rhamstorf et al
Mar 28 2008
Symposium: Future of the Multilateral Trade System
Mar 27 2008
Two reasons for caution in climate mitigation
Mar 23 2008
Obama’s policies called “protectionist and silly”
Feb 27 2008
The astonishing Julio Lacarte and 60 years of GATT
Feb 26 2008
Obama: don’t tread on me
Feb 25 2008
The Garnaut Climate Review Interim Report—I’m not convinced
Feb 22 2008
Can WTO control Kyoto climate tariffs?
Feb 21 2008
WTO’s explanation of the 08-02-08 Agriculture text
Feb 19 2008
The cost of the IPCC carbon target
Feb 15 2008
WTO agriculture proposals probably fall short of substantial improvements
Feb 09 2008
World Climate Report
Feb 09 2008
IMF Data Mapper
Feb 02 2008
Best demolition of IPCC case on Climate
Jan 31 2008
US Presidential Candidates’ trade policies
Jan 25 2008
Trade agreements out of reach
Jan 24 2008
Climate Debate Daily
Jan 24 2008
Cultural notes
Jan 24 2008
Activities in 2007
Dec 24 2007
Warwick Commission report on ‘The Way Forward’ for WTO
Dec 14 2007
Innovation in trade agreements
Dec 12 2007
Stern is mistaken to think binding targets will work
Dec 02 2007
Carbon ‘compensation’ tariffs—a real prospect?
Nov 28 2007
“Pester Me”
Nov 06 2007
Outsourcing the picket line
Aug 01 2007
WTO Tariff Profiles
Jun 26 2007
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
Jun 26 2007
Camino to DevonThink script
Jun 16 2007
Inquit Database of SPS notifications
May 29 2007
Demise of EMI
May 26 2007
Design of a multilateral regime for emissions trading
Mar 10 2007
World Trade Rule site
Feb 19 2007
Access to the Inquit Standards Database
Feb 19 2007
Climate change concern
Feb 13 2007
WTO and Developing Countries
Feb 10 2007
Why market access matters to developing countries
Feb 10 2007
International impact on food regulations
Feb 10 2007
Global Trade Advocate
Feb 10 2007
Tariff analysis database
Feb 09 2007
Consultation on trade
Feb 09 2007
Workshop entries
How to prepare for FTA negotiations (Part III)How to prepare for FTA negotiations (Part II)
How to prepare for FTA negotiations (Part 1)
From the old weblog
A distant humFTAAP proposal dumped
So long Milton Friedman
Climate change — new approaches to agreement
‘Docking’ RTAs in the APEC region
Countries in the SPS Barrier database
A database of standards barriers
Google wool
Ten observations about the WTO’s first decade
A few days in Hong Kong
Predictions for 2006
WTO seen from the banks of the Zambezi
“WTO: The First Ten Years”
The Hong Kong beauty parade
Crocodile tears on regional free trade
Who wins from textile market liberalization?
Workers’ remittances—bigger than aid flows
Survey of Doha’s costs and benefits
Why is it so hard to get a global trade agreement?
The Hong Kong Conference ‘re-framed’
Where is the “wriggle-room”?
Losses all around from US-China garment deal
Agriculture: reading the entrails
Must do list for agriculture negotiations
Europe’s revised offer on agriculture ‘inadequate’
Testing le d’fi fran’ais on Agriculture
High drama and low politics
Timing is (almost) everything in WTO negotiations
France gives Mandelson the finger—maybe
Russia won’t make it into WTO this year
Beginning of the end for rigged aviation markets?
WTO agriculture market access - the movie
Proposals for farm trade reforms surface
Zoellick waves a big stick
The limits of copyright protection
A couple more inches in the agriculture negotiations
Back to the future: an Australia-Japan FTA
Does Koizumi have a broad reform agenda?
Review of “Global Trade Advocate” in FT
A survey of business consultations on trade
Bean-counting and bad faith
Agriculture in an Australia-Japan FTA
Borders matter
EC-China textile ‘circus’
Optimists on WTO: now there are two of us
Climate change and economic ‘rationalism’
Developing country interest in agriculture negotiations
The thunderer lets fly
Hiccup
The ‘swoosh’ of trade policy
I podcast
Drugs, Spanking and “Rock & Roll”—the trade silly season
Who is to blame for the slow pace in WTO?
Court TV comes to WTO
The rhetoric of advocacy
WTO and tax subsidies
Clever new approach to Climate Change
Survey of the WTO negotiations
CAFTA Bill passes House by 2 votes
WTO agriculture negotiations: gloom abounds
Net benefits of cutting greenhouse gasses
Where’s the US Trade Representative?
WTO Agriculture negotiations: ‘e pur si muove’
Advocacy in action: Bangladesh
Mandelson sees progress, claims credit
China revaluation good for Australian trade
Trade advocacy led to sugar victory
Global trade advocacy offers huge commercial returns
Doha Round negotiations — trouble or travail?
Opening agricultural markets the key to global trade reform
Grosser ‘status report’ on WTO agriculture negotiations
Progress in WTO agriculture negotiations
Infectious unilateralism
Solving a WTO dispute with algebra
E-book on global trade advocacy
“Going to Government” — a guide to trade advocacy
Roadmap for agriculture in Vietnam
Quarantine nightmares continue
Chinese trade growth in historical, regional context
Marx on free trade
Manoeuvres in textile negotiations
French referendum makes WTO reforms more difficult
Justice in the case of Shapelle Corby
Is hepatitis B the source of China’s gender imbalance?
‘Lame duck’ chairman of WTO agriculture talks digs in
US and EU quotas to force up world clothing price
A crafted consensus on WTO leadership
The breakthrough on agriculture
Peter Mandelson is optimistic
Doha doldrums
Free trade agreement with China
A (weak) case for food trade liberalization
Developing countries’ record trade share
“Managing the Challenges of WTO Membership”
Indonesia and Malaysia
Funeral games
India and China
Long-run terms of trade for commodities
Inevitable
The old entente
The price of WTO Membership
Globalization and trade deficits
OECD says Australia should restart reform
Renewed activity in WTO
EC’s wheat subsidies raise a warning flag
Howard confuses trade/aid issues
Distribution of trademark ownership
The next Director General of WTO
China gives preferences to Africa
Japan seeks soft trade deals
Garment industries struggling in South Asia
Sutherland report on the Future of WTO
Sutherland report on the Future of WTO
Where Bush’s victory came from
Lesotho textile industry shuts down
Indonesia declines debt relief
Farewell to Robert Heilbroner
Resolving the issue of aircraft subsidies
The performance of Big Pharma
The next Director-General of WTO
Manufacturing won’t move to China
Who’s afraid of …
Garment trade catastrophe?
China’s food trade deficit
Mercosur’s future
Travel 2004
Brief New Year round-up
WTO membership and globalization
US anti-dumps the world shrimp price
What did the election results mean?
Argentina recognises China as a ‘market economy’
Lamy looks to Geneva next
Dispute over on-line gambling services in WTO
Barriers go up to Chinese clothing
Trade and the G W Bush Administration bis
Asian business views on WTO
WTO rules against EU sugar subsidies
Where they earn their living
Vietnam one step nearer WTO
Thailand-Japan deal disappoints
A case for settlement
Future Trade Agenda: Fossil fuels
Can access barriers stop child-pornography?
Currency adjustments postponed
Textile ‘big bang’ worries poor countries
WTO report on US cotton subsidies
Using trade barriers to safeguard ‘values’
Would Kerry cut foreign investment?
WTO World Trade Report 2004
Lion Nathan quits China
How to improve trade with China
Global integration builds
The most free trade President?
Anti-Americanism
Window dressing
Is ASEAN serious about trade reform?
Dotty explanation
ASEAN free trade adventures
No ticket, no laundry
Ideas in Australian trade policy
Wine, woman and children overboard
Trade and the election
Can India double it’s trade share?
Tugging the old leash
Experiment: analysing WTO disputes
Food production rises in China
“Moral panic” in capital markets
A Kerry presidency bad for trade?
Reviving the APEC agenda
China’s food imports in perspective
Strategic shadows
The ‘great sucking sound’ revisited
China FTA: How they do it in the Philippines
Tales of globalization—cement
Limits of Chinese offer on agriculture
Conference on an Australia-China FTA
What China wants in a ‘free trade’ agreement
It’s a drug
Agriculture in an FTA with China
Obvious
What’s the point?
Sugar case victory on EU subsidies
There’s no need to amend the FTA legislation now
A guide to the WTO Framework Agreement.
Is ASEAN integrating?
Second Grosser text
The power of an image
US bucks global shrimp price
Balkanizing demand
Is Kerry a ‘free trader’? Does it matter?
The cost of ‘failure’
WTO “framework” text to be revised
Brazil wants the UN restructured
Experts gloomy on WTO agriculture framework
Manoeuvring on the Framework text
Dangerous, foolish and unjust
WWF to sue EU over secretive trade policy
Twenty-five million Americans read poetry
WTO “framework” looks safe
Free trade Malaysian style
Bicentenary of the death of Alexander Hamilton
A guide to the Annex on Agriculture
US Congress adopts an FTA with Australia
Edging toward a WTO ‘‘framework’’ agreement
A few days in Geneva
Market Access Matters
The price of UK fiscal principle
China threatens retaliatory anti-dumping
Demographic consequences of choosing male children
Free trade agreement with Thailand
How to organize under capitalism
Howard seen from the Left
What’s motivating the free trade frenzy?
Accessing distributed knowledge
Cutting agricultural tariffs
EU to deny ‘market economy status’ to China
India’s promise
Labor splitting over US FTA
‘Flexibility’ in the agriculture negotiations
ASEAN-China FTA negotiations stall
Proposed EU sugar reforms
Al-Qaeda algebra
Closing the gap
Plants and Patents
Stiglitz on Doha round
China inflation watch
EU Constitution draft adopted
Between the lines
Re::Joyce
China’s growth
Report to Senate Committee on FTA
Does UNCTAD get it (at last)?
Market access matters
Shameless self-promotion
WTO Annual Report for 2004
Errors of distribution
Pascal takes a punt
Budget imbalance
Mot juste
Submission to Senate on US-Australia FTA
Tax-breaks fracture FSC revision
US welcomes EU initiative on export subsidies
Reading entrails
Update: EC’s market access claims
Update: more detail of the EC proposals
EU offer to eliminate export subsidies
Poorest countries seek re-launch of WTO talks
Buying your way out of a jam
More on the FTA: the Intellectual Property provisions
Submission to Senate on FTA with United States
Simply put
Hanoi visit
Rocks in the harbour
A free trade offer from ASEAN
Ripe, brown …
Chinese subsidies for grains farmers
EU offer to Mercosur
Fewer new anti-dumping cases
Neoconservatives and American foreign policy
Use of United States’ trade preferences
Bantustan in Gaza
Does WTO membership increase trade?
China FTA—NZ pays its dues
Protectionists enjoy imports, too
More grand strategies
US garment makers ready for quota abolition
More ANU opposition to FTA’s
Risky roads
The calculation of Sistani
Growth bounces back… maybe more to come
Early autumn, Melbourne
On the road again
One for the punter
End of Textile and Garment quotas
Punishing preferences
Bangle-desh
Anti-dumping by whom and on what
Bush endorses exports
‘Direct’ and ‘indirect’ taxes on trade
IBSA ‘framework’ agreement
TRIPS and Drugs: nothing happening
Public and private interest
Demography and destiny
The cost of the ‘Byrd amendment’
Woman in a straw hat
Chimeric sovereignty
Pepys and patents
Democrats attack public property
Facing up to strategic error
EU sanctions on US trade
Downsizing and outsourcing
This is encouraging?
Phased EU retaliation on FSC
Kindergarten trade theory
Good news on Quarantine
EU backs away from retaliation on FSC
Australia’s future trade policies
Why I no longer consider economic isolation a threat
Free trade among developing countries?
Everything old (in exchange protection) is new again