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- 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
- Brian Schmidt: The Mathematics Does Not Lie: Why Polling Got The Australian Election Wrong by Nicholas Gruen 20/05/2019
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Category Archives: Political theory
Why I’m not reading Steven Pinker’s latest
I’m afraid this post won’t live up to the title above. It has its genesis in a long email I wrote someone who told me I just had to read Jeremy Lend’s critique of ‘Enlightenment Now’. I’ve mainly just topped and tailed … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Cultural Critique, Political theory
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The Future of Politics: by John Burnheim
Politics is about constructing those public goods that are necessary for communities, are a minimum to deal with problems that threaten life itself. In our present situation, the most serious problems are all posed on a global scale, as a … Continue reading
My presentation in London
Herewith my presentation in London “Economic reform thinking as if we’d bothered to do it” and Martin Wolf’s commentary on it beginning at around the 40 minute mark. Judging from audience comments, a good time was had by all. You can download … Continue reading
Authoritarianism: GUEST POST by John Burnheim
Arguing with an American ex-Australian now resident in Canada, I contested his view that, of the three countries, America is the least and Australia the most, authoritarian. In part it was a verbal difference. I was taking “authoritarian” in the … Continue reading
The first page test: Hannah Arendt edition
There’s an amazing amount of dreck about – masquerading as the latest thinking. It’s not that there isn’t a lot to think about, so it’s easy to think you should read this or that. How to choose? One of my filters is … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Critique, Philosophy, Political theory
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The people’s voice: as rage and as healing
There’s a spectre haunting Europe … and the rest of the Western world. We have elaborate ‘diversity’ programs in good upper-middle-class places to prevent discrimination against all manner of minorities (and majorities like women). It’s a fine thing. But there’s a … Continue reading
Centrist strategic voting
This is my response to Peter Dempster’s proposals. I can see one important merit of them. Electoral politics is inherently polarising because electoral politics involves politicians beating other politicians to qualify to be politicians in the first place – by getting into … Continue reading
