I'd back Harry Clarke over Groucho any day.
By the way, if Ergas has spent much of his career on infrastructure economics, how come I hardly ever notice him writing about it in the Oz? Does he have any concerns about how Abbott is just going hard on roads with (as I understand it) little in the way of assessment of their economic value?
And can Ergas allay my concerns that economic analysis of all but certain "obvious" infrastructure might not be that credible an exercise anyway? As I have said before, I presume it's easy to work out some benefits of a port or railway that allows a new mining area to export efficiently. But cutting down the time to travel across town by car by 10 minutes? I have my doubts about the rigorousness of how you economically model that.
This is a topic Ergas could perhaps usefully enlighten me. Instead, he just craps on with his political biases.
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Ergas went over to the OECD and specialised in telecommunications. He was a good academic. He came back a different person. his career at Telstra was simply as a spokesman for apologetics.
He had a memory lapse when he criticized the NBN for being a monopoly.
He went broke in a business which should have been a cash cow forgetting being a Liberal shill was bad for business.
Now he is today's version of Bob Ansett.
Moreover his 'articles are always very easy to take apart.
That is why he not anyone from Catallaxy ever comment anywhere else except at that echo chamber
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