Hold the presses - Coal may not be good for humanity. OK that was a cheap ideological shot - the kind you might see on our rival ideologically aligned blogs but surely not here at Club Pony. In any event, the graphic above is a remarkable illustration of the long lived effect...

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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="336"] This is the framework all Troppo authors use in their online reputation management (ORM). KPIs are reported monthly. If you notice any Troppo authors going off track, please shoot an email to reputationnaughties@clubtroppo.com.au[/...

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Paul Krugman has an interesting blog post on the extent to which there might be contagion from one area of social capital (or lack thereof) to another. He's responding to the claim CEOs made to him that they only started arcing up their pay demands when they saw sportspeople d...

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Festival Website | Films | Melbourne Schedule Top Picks Who Am I-No System is Safe Benjamin is a socially inept nobody. Max is handsome and charismatic. What these strangers have in common is computer hacking. After proving his skill, Benjamin is invited to join Max and his fr...

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by Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson. Publication is available here . This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed naemndemaen) to make three co...

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Queensland's judicial system looks to be in quite a bit of strife at present. The former Newman LNP government's ill-advised appointment of an utterly unsuitable Supreme Court Chief Justice in Tim Carmody is continuing to cause serious problems. Mercifully, at least Carmody CJ...

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I've written about what I call irreducibility at least twice before . Then along comes this nice article in the excellent new publication The Mandarin on the " 19 reasons why agencies find it hard to hire technologists ". It's a classic case of how top down systems don't manag...

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I've written about the phenomenon of discursive collapse several times on Troppo. The engine behind the phenomenon is the desire of the discipline to get on with what it's been doing - filling out some well recognised and somehow aesthetically pleasing research program. So whe...

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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="334"] Warning, this diagram came up in a Google image search and is not to be taken too seriously. It's a jungle out there![/caption] With parts one and two here and here . . . in which I conclude the previous two posts with a column fo...

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Continued from Part One yesterday. [caption id="attachment_22531" align="alignright" width="404"] Well folks, when I put "Overton Window - Overton Juggernaut" into Google and looked for an image, this came up naturally enough. If the cap fits . . .[/caption] Over the last few...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVAmGArS0tU The Overton Window is a quite well known expression describing the demarcation between political/policy discussion that is and is not acceptable in mainstream discussion. Sometimes what removes your idea from the window is that, what...

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Adam Smith put it memorably above. I'll be forever grateful for my time at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation because it has shown me the generality of that statement. Whether Smith intended it or not, it applies not just to business people of the same trade, but to p...

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https://youtu.be/lUF6klWuB38 Yes, folks, every now and again you hear yourself talking in sound-bytes - well I do anyway. It's kind of fun - like when you look at those 3D pictures that were in vogue in the 1980s - I think there was one every week in the Good Weekend - and you...

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