Culture and language as public goods
Herewith a weekend half-hour read. Comments and corrections appreciated. A culture survives principally, I think, by the power of its institutions to bind and loose...
How can the University of Queensland recover from the Drew Pavlou affair?
The management of the University of Queensland, and in particular Peter Hoj and Peter Varghese, stand condemned today by the international media, by both Labor...
The Evaluator General
https://youtu.be/fI5kCr7eIJQ I recently sent a couple of emails explaining the Evaluator General and also did an extended interview explaining the ideas in the context of...
Covid strategies for Australia: herd immunity or quarantine land?
Let’s talk about some of the covid policy options facing Australia in the coming months and years. It seems to me we can either grasp...
Against decentralising: why crowded is good
Note: This post was original published on 6 July 2015; I've updated it several times because both parties keep revisiting a decentralisation agenda. [getty src="587183652"...
The corona cost-benefit analyses of Richard Holden, Bruce Preston and Neil Bailey: ooops!
The economic and social damage of lock downs in Australia is starting to get noticed so much that even academic economists are paying attention. After...
On Corona/Covid-19, herd immunity and WELLBY tradeoffs: key predictions and numbers
[in progress: will add more references, links and latest numbers when I get the time] In this note, I want to deal with three related...