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- Adam Smith was a feminist economist: Care – the essay by Nicholas Gruen 16/04/2019
- War on empathy, war on confidence, war on context by Nicholas Gruen 16/04/2019
- An unpublished column on Brexit: until now! by Nicholas Gruen 15/04/2019
- We know WHAT we need to do. Will someone tell us HOW? by Nicholas Gruen 03/04/2019
- Paul Krugman’s incredible invisibility trick by Nicholas Gruen 02/04/2019
- Crikey group sub: it's on again by Nicholas Gruen 27/03/2019
- The Guru recipe by Paul Frijters 18/03/2019
- Scaling knowledge: Should our disciplines have mesh or tree-like relation to each other? by Nicholas Gruen 18/03/2019
- Review of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline: Guest Post from Simon Molloy by Nicholas Gruen 14/03/2019
- French Film Festival by Nicholas Gruen 05/03/2019
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Author Archives: Nicholas Gruen
Review of Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline: Guest Post from Simon Molloy
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline could upend our thinking about our future of planet Earth with far reaching implications for policy on climate change, immigration and border control, defence, education, child care, and jobs, to name just … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Economics and public policy
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French Film Festival
Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks The Trouble With You (Opening Night) Yvonne is the principled young widow of the local police chief who was killed in the line of duty. Each night she puts their young son … Continue reading
Posted in Films and TV
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Burnheim on Gray on Hayek
A few years ago I read some John Gray on Friedrich Hayek. In short, he’s very good on Hayek, though he seems to have moved on rather to larger topics, not always to good effect. Anyway, If you have the best part … Continue reading
When is a conversation not a conversation? When it’s a political conversation.
I It looks like liberal democracy is falling apart. But we can put it back together if we take democracy seriously enough—as seriously as the ancient Greeks. The chaos of Donald Trump was unimaginable just a decade ago. Brexit was … Continue reading
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The Public Goods of the 21st Century
For those of you in Melbourne, I thought I’d let you know of a public lecture I’m giving on Thursday night this coming week details below. If you’d like to come, make your free reservation on this page. Thought Leadership Series Lecture | The Public Goods of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Architecture, Economics and public policy, Political theory
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I Wish I’d Asked: Eileen Torney edition
About a year ago my wife Eva and a friend of hers, Danny Finley started working on a program designed to tackle loneliness through intergenerational contact. Kids are paired with older people in their community through contact between schools and aged … Continue reading
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What economic reform thinking might have looked like – if we’d bothered to do it
I have posted this talk previously, but can now post the transcript, worked up from a YouTube transcript with thanks to Shruti Sekar for editing it. You can download the slides to which I was speaking from this link.
