Some favourite anti-lockdown art
I here want to salute the brave artists who used their talents to capture the inhumanity and essential insanity of lockdowns. My favourite is the...
Sam Roggeveen on the hollowing out of our democracy
[caption id="attachment_34756" align="alignright" width="464"] Amazing what Google Images serves up[/caption] Last week Sam Roggeveen e-mailed me asking if I'd accept a post for Troppo from...
Uncertainty, Part 1: McGurk
As one the best illustrations of the way our minds deal with uncertainty, consider the following video. Please listen and watch at least 30 seconds...
A World Anti-Hysteria Organisation?
The essential governance problem in March 2020 in Western countries was the overwhelming demand of the vast majority of the population to do something dramatic...
What experiments on cult behaviour tell us about lockdown beliefs
With a recent publication in Nature that reported lockdowns have no effect on covid-cases or covid-deaths, there are now over 30 studies that fail to...
What would a wellbeing budget look like? Hint: Not like New Zealand’s
Herewith a podcast interview of me setting out my case that the New Zealand Wellbeing Budget has a relationship to wellbeing which corresponds to a...
Your new barons. When and how did the super-rich escaped taxation?
Together with Benno Torgler and Katharina Gangl, I published a piece recently on how to tax the powerful and sophisticated. Our substantive argument on what one...