Thoughts on “Thinking, fast and slow”
I couldn’t resist buying a copy of Daniel Kahneman’s best-seller when returning from holidays. Several friends and colleagues told me it was a great book;...
Education 2.0 (Age/SMH column)
Some readers may remember this blog post. Here's an update from today's Age/SMH column. IN 2010 the energetic and forward-looking (then) secretary of Victoria's Education...
The Good-Hearted Curmudgeon versus The Nanny State
By sheer chance, on Sunday I found myself listening on ABC Classic FM to part of the 18th century opera 'The Good-Hearted Curmudgeon'. In her...
Revenge of the Back of the Envelope Demography
AKA, "Follow ups no-one asked for". Last year I spent some idle time doing some rough work to see if ethnic and religious populations[1] were...
Herding – again
I haven't got time for much of a post, but here's a marker in the sand. There's an interesting conversation going on at Mainly Macro on...
Happy pensioners and miserable geriatrics: the happiness wave.
In a recently published study withTony Beatton (QUT), I looked at how happiness changes by age. For the freely downloadable working paper version, see here. ...