Expected and Unexpected Winners in the West from the covid hysteria.
[micro-trigger alert: dark humour ahead] The top prize for economic winners in the covid hysteria goes to the pharmaceutical companies who were quickest to jump...
Professor Foster’s cost-benefit analysis for the Victorian parliament.
[below the exact text (with different font/highlight) as Gigi Foster's submission to the Victorian parliamentary library in mid-August here. To see her health-related notes, including...
Sparkling rapid chess
In the Age of COVID chess has been reinvented. In March (I think it was) the Candidates Tournament was dramatically ended a few rounds in...
Could lock-downs lead to a baby boom in several Western countries? If so, why?
For months now, demographers and other social scientists have been predicting a covid baby bust because marriages were postponed, pubs were closed, anxiety levels were...
How change has changed: changemaking then and now
Below is a piece I published on the NESTA website in early 2016 which they took down in a web revamp. It's still available on...
A snippet: when to use consultants
[caption id="attachment_34192" align="alignright" width="202"] A stupid diagram which I have made small for obvious reasons.[/caption] The Mandarin asked me to provide a summary answer to...
A short story by Herbert Simon
I've been dipping into Herbert Simon's autobiography, Models of my life. He's from an interesting time in the intellectual history of economics and the social...