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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- An unpublished column on Brexit: until now!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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Category Archives: Health
File under “déformation professionnelle”
This is a note to myself. It’s from the report of the NDIS Citizen’s Jury Scorecard. However, in a way that speaks for itself, it may be of interest to Troppodillians. It’s an illustration of professional obfuscation and indifference to those in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Health
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Concept Split: Shockwaves!!!
If Rex can give us his guide to Gravitational Waves – a very impressive performance I have to say, then I can dust off an old document from my days at the ANU law school – in the late 1980s. Concept Split: … Continue reading
Our ABC: some great Radio National listening
I drove for the best part of 11 hours over the last few days giving a Do Lecture (would you believe?) which was fun. In any event I listened to some seriously great radio. Inside the drug court I was riveted by three … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Economics and public policy, Health, Innovation, Music, Parenting, Political theory
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Why is Infant Mortality Higher in the US than in Europe? (Hint: it’s what you guessed it was)
by Alice Chen, Emily Oster, Heidi Williams – #20525 (AG CH HC HE PE) Abstract: The US has a substantial – and poorly understood – infant mortality disadvantage relative to peer countries. We combine comprehensive micro-data on births and infant … Continue reading
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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use
Amazing that this is such a big deal, that we can administer morphine but not medical marijuana to alleviate pain. The paper is here. Abstract: While at least a dozen state legislatures in the United States have recently considered bills … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Health
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Operation 2770: TACSI’s Family by Family expands to Mt Druitt
(For the full 27 minute video from which this 6 minute video has been extracted, click here.) Family by Family about which you’ve heard before is spreading its wings. We’ve started in Mt Druitt where we’ve scoped the program investigating how it should … Continue reading
Who’s oppressing women? Royal baby edition
I recall going to a lecture by Naomi Wolf at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra when she burst onto the scene as the author of The Beauty Myth which seemed to promise some new beginning after the sixties’ and seventies’ ‘second wave’ … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Health
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