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How nationalistic/cosmopolitan or just crud loving are global audiences: how large are their film industries?

Nicholas Gruen
December 21, 2011December 21, 2011
[caption id="attachment_18324" align="alignleft" width="865" caption="A cool graphic curtesy of McKinsey"][/caption] Hard to believe we have a share of the global film industry revenue which is...
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Europe’s path of least resistance

Paul Frijters
December 20, 2011
What is the road of least resistance scenario, and thereby the most likely scenario, for the Eurozone financial crisis? To solve this conundrum, we need...
Immigration and refugees Politics - national

Riding the asylum seeker merry-go-round

Ken Parish
December 19, 2011
Gillard government - Not a time for political point-scoring but the sinking is all that mongrel Abbott's fault for refusing to vote for our Malaysia...
Economics and public policy

What’s wrong with the Rem Tribunal’s windfall to senior public servants? (Short answer – it’s a windfall!)

Nicholas Gruen
December 19, 2011
Just that - it's a windfall. Here's Henry Ergas's well considered response to the latest depredations of managerialism. Nice to be able to agree for once...
Economics and public policy Political theory Politics - international

The sins of the fathers: Political pathologies of inequality

Nicholas Gruen
December 16, 2011
I posted a while back about my pet theory that the South of the US was a psychotic society, which psychosis was brought about by...
Missing Link

Missing Link Friday – Last post before Christmas

Don Arthur
December 16, 2011December 16, 2011
Missing link is taking a vacation. See you next year! The destruction of the tea: What did the original tea party patriots stand for? Alfred...
Economics and public policy Education IT and Internet Web and Government 2.0

Me: or recordings thereof

Nicholas Gruen
December 14, 2011
Here are two talks I've given in the last year. One was a couple of weeks ago at a Melbourne Conversation on Big Data. I...

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