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Needing The Eggs: 70 Years Of Going Through The Motions

Nicholas Gruen
October 21, 2021
I've recently completed an essay and like quite a few of my essays, it's not been 'optimised' for publication in a magazine, so I may...
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Club Troppo Is On The (Hiccoughing) Move

Antonios Sarhanis
October 18, 2021October 21, 2021
Huge thanks to the long suffering Jacques for all his work on Troppo over the decades. And thanks now to Antonios who's managed to transfer...
Cultural Critique Economics and public policy Philosophy Science Social Policy Society

Science and the universe of is: Design and the multiverse of what might be

Nicholas Gruen
October 16, 2021October 31, 2021
[video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://clubtroppo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Science-v-inhabiting-our-own-world.mp4"][/video] From a recent podcast interview with Tyson Yunkaporta This post began as a comment on David Walker's post on David Card's...
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David Card won the 2021 Economics Nobel. Why should we fear minimum wage hikes?

David Walker
October 14, 2021May 3, 2023
[caption id="attachment_35574" align="alignleft" width="793"] David Card, 2021 Nobel winner (and nice guy to boot)[/caption] One of economics’ most famous papers – the 1994 minimum wage...
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Congrats to Card, Angrist, and Imbens!

Paul Frijters
October 12, 2021October 12, 2021
The Nobel Prize for Economics got announced and I was pleased to hear it went to David Card, Josh Angrist, and Guido Imbens. Among the...
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Michael Polanyi, Karl Popper and the philosophy of science (with an eye to blockchain)

Nicholas Gruen
October 9, 2021October 31, 2021
[caption id="attachment_35549" align="alignleft" width="700"] Michael Polanyi (L) and Karl Popper (R)[/caption] I've been working on a joint paper with someone else about blockchain. One way...
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A letter to Scandinavia

Paul Frijters
October 4, 2021October 4, 2021
Dear Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland (Scandinavia), First off, thank you for the last 18 months. Almost alone in ‘the West’, you have either...

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