*Santa*
By clicking on the image you will be taken to the full demonstration of Brand *Santa* which has certainly impressed us here at Troppo. And I...
Hallelujah
We are off to the Badja. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3tMPfeI1w Dear Troppos, merry Christmas, have a good and happy time! John Walker and Anne E Sanders
Public goods privately provided: the video
https://vimeo.com/82254326 I recently gave a presentation in Adelaide at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation which I chair. As you'll see, and perhaps to your surprise, there's a continuity between...
The Xmas quiz answers and discussion
Last Monday I posted 4 questions to see who thought like a classic utilitarian and who adhered to a wider notion of ethics, suspecting that...
Estimating Habit Formation in Voting. Thomas Fujiwara, Kyle C. Meng, Tom Vogl
Abstract: We estimate habit formation in voting--the effect of past on current turnout--by exploiting transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on U.S. presidential elections from 1952-2012,...
The X-mas quiz: are you a utilitarian?
Economists are wedded to utilitarianism as their collective moral compass. This is why we speak of social planners, welfare, utility maximization, and quality of life....
Red Tape, Political Correctness and Edicts from On High
In the middle of this year a friend who had decamped to CSIRO from government wrote to me and asked me to participate in an interview...