April 2017 – Club Troppo

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="490"] Rene Descartes eat your heart out: The diagram that changed the world.[/caption] A friend wondered aloud on Facebook what I thought of...

Upmarket Agitprop: Clive James on John Howard on Bob Menzies

Nicholas Gruen

April 26, 2017

An essay prompted by a friend recommending James' essay I think largely for its defence of Menzies as worthy of more respect he's been given by the left...

Economics and public policy Science Uncategorized

From the Department of “Why didn’t I think of that”: A natty idea to encourage scientific replication

Nicholas Gruen

April 24, 2017April 24, 2017

An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game by Luigi Butera, John A. List...

Bullshit Competitions Cultural Critique

CEOs bridging divides: the OECD and the little people

Nicholas Gruen

April 22, 2017April 27, 2017

The OECD is getting pretty serious about bridging divides - you know righting the world's injustices - that kind of thing. It's making a difference....

Cultural Critique

Troppo Quiz: what do these things have in common?

Nicholas Gruen

April 20, 2017April 23, 2017

Answer given on or about Sunday. Now available in comments

Economics and public policy

Making the central bank a people’s bank

Nicholas Gruen

April 20, 2017May 7, 2017

Some of you will have seen my article in the Saturday Paper. I can only tease you with 150 words from it here. Then you'll need to...

Films and TV

Spanish Film Festival

Nicholas Gruen

April 19, 2017April 22, 2017

As you know, despite spending millions on marketing to get the word out, our arts industry, for easily understood commercial reasons, doesn’t effectively get the...