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What economic reform thinking might have looked like – if we’d bothered to do it. Me and Martin Wolf

Nicholas Gruen

February 6, 2019January 3, 2020

https://youtu.be/S_SWo3Cj8Yc I have posted this talk previously, but can now post the transcript, worked up from a YouTube transcript with thanks to Shruti Sekar for...

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Infectious disease in the land of the free

Nicholas Gruen

December 10, 2018

Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900-1948 James J. Feigenbaum, Christopher Muller, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field #25345 Abstract: In the first...

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Why it’s worth stomping on Universal Basic Income

David Walker

April 9, 2018April 9, 2018

[caption id="attachment_31852" align="alignleft" width="800"] Actual picture of the Universal Basic Income idea[/caption] In my latest column for The CEO Magazine I take aim at the...

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Andrew Leigh’s excellent speech launching Randomistas

Nicholas Gruen

March 10, 2018March 19, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpVcsRVwF8s&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=events_2018&utm_content=randomists_event_recording Robert Solow once referred to the law and economics scholar Richard Posner as writing books the way the rest of us breathe. Andrew Leigh seems...

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Taking competitive neutrality seriously: My challenge to the PC

Nicholas Gruen

October 9, 2017September 30, 2020

[caption id="attachment_31407" align="aligncenter" width="1035"] It's pretty obvious why this picture came up forth in a Google Image Search of the expression "competitive neutrality" but if...

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The last man in Europe: waiting to be read in a bookstore near you!

Nicholas Gruen

July 31, 2017September 13, 2017

I've known Dennis Glover since we were both staffers in Parliament during the Hawke-Keating years (I was there in 1981, 83-4 and 1991-3 until just...

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A 50 per cent top rate makes sense

David Walker

June 13, 2017June 13, 2017

[getty src="171148424" width="498" height="344"] My column last week for The CEO Magazine reiterates a point made previously at Troppo: the weight of research shows decisively...