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- Notes on 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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Australia should remain in alliance with the bully
There is a widespread consensus in Australian policy circles that Australia should follow the US in almost any foreign adventure, though preferably on the cheap. The shining example of this was John Howard’s decision to publicly support the US in … Continue reading
Six tough institutional challenges this century
In 1900, the modern nation states of Europe faced many challenges in terms of how they were run, with poverty and disease still prevalent. The largest problems were more or less successfully addressed by 2000. The road involved world wars … Continue reading
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.
Paul Krugman’s incredible invisibility trick
It’s impossible to avoid misjudgements in life or to get all one’s predictions right. But should economists get caught out quite so often? Paul Krugman is honest and self-critical. So he’s up for identifying what economists missed about globalisation – … Continue reading
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The logic of the inevitable (nuclear) apocalypse. Can the Gods save us?
The probability of a massive nuclear war the next 10 years between any of the 8 current nuclear powers (US, UK, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, NK, Israel) seems low. The bluster of the leaders is supposed to make the threat … Continue reading
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The Tragedy of the Commons versus the Comedy of the Parks: By JOHN BURNHEIM
In the context of my writing about public goods, John Burnheim sent me the email below. (Note his use of the word ‘comedy is intended as Dante meant it – as a story where things turn out in the end). … Continue reading
Second Brexit referendum questions.
We seem to have a Brexit deal today, which has two important components: free-movement between the UK and the EU ends (no single market) whilst on all matters of trade, the UK indefinitely follows the EU until a new deal … Continue reading
