| Turning Unprofitable Mines into Profitable Mines |
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| Paper presented at an AusIMM Seminar, August 1998. Suggests that the "regular" management responses such as cost cutting etc. are not working, and that the problem is due to unrecognized paradigm shifts. Looks at how to recognize these changes and how to overcome the restrictions to more creative thinking |
| Controversy over the Concept of Capital |
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| Historical Survey (excerpt) from Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk's famous 3-volume set of where "Capital" came from and what it means. (from: "Capital and Interest", Vol II, The Positive Theory of Capital)"Capital and Interest" |
| Real Capital ... |
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| Paper presented at the CPA Australia Conference, Nov-2000. Examines why capital intensive industries like mining continually fail to achieve expected returns to investment. Lessons for other capital intensive industries like airlines, communications, and knowledge-based industries. |