Monthly Archives: March 2012

Fancy dinner with a flashmob in Sydney – tomorrow night?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Nicholas Gruen

Someone who emailed me saying he was coming to my presentation at Sydney Uni tomorrow night suggested we catch up for dinner. Which I’ll be doing.  Then I suggested to him that I’d invite anyone who was at the presentation who … Continue reading →

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Kantian Optimisation

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Nicholas Gruen

No time to read the paper right now, but it looks great. Kantian Optimization, Social Ethos, and Pareto Efficiency Date: 2012-03 By: John E. Roemer (Dept. of Political Science, Yale University) Although evidence accrues in biology, anthropology and experimental economics … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Philosophy, Political theory, Religion | 37 Comments

Gov 2 presentation at Sydney Uni this Thursday at 3.00 pm

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Nicholas Gruen

Last year I did a presentation on Government 2.0 to Masters Government Students at Sydney Uni and it was lots of fun. So they invited me back. I suggested that this time we do it using the web properly, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy | 6 Comments

Steve Jobs, climate quackery and democracy

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Don Arthur

If you discovered that you had cancer would you (a) find a doctor who is an expert in treating your disease and follow their advice, or (b) attempt to devise your own treatment by reading about cancer on the internet? … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Health, Politics - national | 66 Comments

Melbourne and the body politic

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Rex Ringschott

A Club Troppo Research Project

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Krugman comes down as a Kuhnian

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Richard Tsukamasa Green

Responding to Noah Smith, Krugman says the following about the long term effects of the “Macro Wars”.  On the academic side: look, to a first approximation nobody ever admits being wrong about anything. But my sense is that a lot … Continue reading →

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Nicholas Gruen

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that … Continue reading →

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