This submission to the Australia Productivity Commission responds to a recently published PricewaterhouseCoopers report on Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Introducing a ‘Fair Use' Exception, prepared for APRA, AMCOS, PPCA, Copyright Agency | Viscopy, Foxtel, News Corp Australia and...

This paper will provide information on what happened in the financial crisis of 2008 and how to graph volatility outside of the option market. We will investigate the causes of the financial crisis, as well as some of the social inequalities that still exist today. We will explore household...

This paper will provide information on topographic finance and how it can be used in econometric and financial analysis. First we will cover what topographic finance means. Secondly, a discussion of what problems can be visualized will be but forth. Thirdly, a high level description of the...

Topographic finance is the study of surfaces to describe financial systems in multiple dimensions. The problem with finance and economics is to describe accurately what is actually governing price dynamics. The price dynamics are behavioral and do not exhibit a rational maximization of a utility...

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans — social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.We share with the 18th century Scots...

This author's version of a forthcoming SpringerBrief responds to the criticism that mainstream economics is currently facing due to its heavy reliance on models and narrow range of quantitative research techniques. It takes a broader view, identifying issues that are also relevant for heterodox...

One aspect of the present paper is to draw out the Adam Smith in Friedrich Hayek. I suggest that common economic talk of market communication, market error and correction, and policy error and correction invokes a spectatorial being and appeals to our sympathy with such being. Behind such common...

We try to create a set of maps of publications, which where presented in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) in 1994-2002 and in Social Science Research Network in 2002-2003. All publications are considered according to JEL classification system for three possible levels of classification...

This chapter argues that the quot;maximizing conceptionquot; of rationality that economists are criticized for employing is one that moral philosophers cannot well do without. But the maximizing conception, though essential to identifying what reason requires that we choose, seems unsuited to...

In 1992 when Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States the national annual deficit was projected to rise to more than $357 billion by the end of his first term in office. The total deficit was projected to rise to more than $3 trillion, the highest in United States history. To the...