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- How Good are Refugees? This year's MUST ATTEND dinner with Santo Cilauro. 12th Sept, Melb. by Nicholas Gruen 17/08/2019
- There's no such thing as a free launch: Launching John Quiggin's Economics in Two Lessons. by Nicholas Gruen 26/07/2019
- Market – what market? The catch 22 that stops 'scaling' innovation in government in its tracks by Nicholas Gruen 24/07/2019
- Comparing the Census to alternative data or information: What is the right counterfactual? by Nicholas Gruen 21/06/2019
- If your problem is darkness, it's better to light one quarter of a candle than to light any more of a candle (apparently) by Nicholas Gruen 20/06/2019
- Blogging another inquiry: Valuing the Australian Census by Nicholas Gruen 12/06/2019
- The Last Days of Nigel (the Darwin Shooter's second victim) by Ken Parish 06/06/2019
- Guest Post by Simon Molloy: Reducing political bias at the national broadcaster by Nicholas Gruen 05/06/2019
- Australia should remain in alliance with the bully by Paul Frijters 27/05/2019
- Forecasting and competition policy by Nicholas Gruen 26/05/2019
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Author Archives: Nicholas Gruen
Forecasting and competition policy
Values are observed in actions and choices, and rather less so in words. Competition policy has been applied with great relish to the labour market – at least at the bottom end. (Subject to our relatively generous basic and award wage … Continue reading
Brian Schmidt: The Mathematics Does Not Lie: Why Polling Got The Australian Election Wrong
This is a guest post by Brian Schmidt. Actually it isn’t, I’ve cut and pasted. I hope he doesn’t mind. Important stuff. HT: John Walker Everyone in my office grew sick last week of my continual complaints about the state … Continue reading
RIP Bob Hawke: a repost from 2008
I worked for the early Hawke government in 1983 and 1984 when I worked for Senator John Button. Hawke barely knew me then or later, but in 2003, I attended a dinner at Moonee Valley Racecourse in honour of the … Continue reading
Guest Post by Peter Dempster: A novel voting strategy for centrists
Peter Dempster asked me to post this follow-up post to an earlier one of his. Nicholas A novel voting strategy for centrists Vote 1 for your preferred party but then do something very unusual – Vote 2 for the opposing party, … Continue reading
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History and economics: it was all there in the beginning …
<SelfIndulgenceAlert>Stuart MacIntyre was kind enough to suggest me as a discussant on a paper on financial deregulation in the 1980s in a workshop focusing on Australia and the Bretton Woods conference put on by Melbourne Uni History and Economic History. … Continue reading
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Adam Smith was a feminist economist: Care – the essay
This recent essay in the Mandarin is a reworking of an essay I wrote in 2016 in a string of essays in which I developed the idea of the Evaluator General. I was following Gary Sturgess’ suggestion that governments should not think of themselves as producing … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Economics and public policy, Health, History, Parenting
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War on empathy, war on confidence, war on context
Cross posted with the Mandarin Nicholas Gruen has argued that it’s much harder to realise evidence-based policy – both institutionally and intellectually – than many calling for it realise. Here he explains how putatively ‘scientific’ and ‘objective’ approaches can, paradoxically, compromise their efficacy … Continue reading
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