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Crowdsourcing the crisis: crossing the is/ought barrier

Nicholas Gruen
March 31, 2020July 18, 2022
[caption id="attachment_36337" align="alignleft" width="939"] Creating and managing a high-performance knowledge-sharing network: the Toyota case[/caption] I recently reposted my old column on blogging the 2008 crisis...
Coronavirus crisis Economics and public policy

The master, his emissary and the balance of risk

Nicholas Gruen
March 27, 2020July 14, 2022
[caption id="attachment_36339" align="alignright" width="337"] Is this a bunch of black patches on a white background? It is. Of course it is. (Remember you're at Troppo...
Democracy Economics and public policy regulation Sortition and citizens’ juries

What things shouldn’t we be wasting this crisis on?

Nicholas Gruen
March 27, 2020July 14, 2022
[caption id="attachment_33674" align="aligncenter" width="3840"] Not sure Winston ever said that, but it sounds like the kind of thing he might have said. Quote investigator doesn't...
Best From Elsewhere Blogs TNG Democracy Economics and public policy

Hoisted from archives: Wrapping up 2008: the year of the first blogged financial crisis

Nicholas Gruen
March 26, 2020March 26, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHlT6LBXeo Since we're blogging the next crisis, I thought now was a good time to reheat the blogging of the last one. intriguing to think of all...
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6 post-Corona Institutional questions

Paul Frijters
March 26, 2020March 26, 2020
The mass hysteria of the corona crisis is raging, with the resulting self-isolation of whole economies and populations. The loss seems greater with every new...
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It is 1984. A message from London.

Paul Frijters
March 24, 2020March 24, 2020
People shuffling in the street, afraid to look others in the eye, get close, and be accused. Fear as a silent ghost hovering above the...
Death and taxes Economics and public policy Health

PANIC IS OUR FRIEND!

Nicholas Gruen
March 24, 2020
It’s an intimidating picture. But the weaker the freeze, the more people die in overburdened hospitals — and the longer it ultimately takes for the...

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