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Competence and likeability and how increased power can make you worse off

Nicholas Gruen
March 24, 2010
One of the great benefits of Web 2.0 is the way in which it facilitates collaboration and information exchange in all manner of ways.  And...
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I voted for Obama

Nicholas Gruen
March 24, 2010
HT: Peter Martin
Economics and public policy History

Warren Buffett

Nicholas Gruen
March 23, 2010March 23, 2010
I've been a fan of Warren Buffett for some time. I've been reading a big fat bio of him - The Snowball by Alice Schroeder. It's...
Climate Change Economics and public policy Health Politics - international Politics - national

Obama’s victory: a lesson for Rudd?

James Farrell
March 23, 2010March 23, 2010
So Obama got his modest and compromised health care bill through Congress. For those who are more interested in policy than process, there's a pretty helpful...
Politics - national

Deconstructing Rudd’s health plan

Ken Parish
March 23, 2010March 23, 2010
I'm a bit conflicted about Rudd's health plan.  On the one hand, it's fairly clear that the States engage in a degree of cost-shifting and...
Health Politics - international

Krugman: another masterpiece about that strange country he lives in

Nicholas Gruen
March 22, 2010
Fear Strikes Out, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times The day before Sunday’s health care vote, President Obama gave an unscripted talk to House Democrats....
Economics and public policy Philosophy Political theory Politics - international

Obliquity . . .

Nicholas Gruen
March 20, 2010March 22, 2010
We do have a few advantages, perhaps the greatest being that we don’t have a strategic plan Warren Buffett Obliquity . . . or indirectness...

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