Book Launch of the Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making July 1st
Wellbeing & Policy Making Book Launch Event on 1st July 5-6.30pm London Time. Attending the Launch is Free, the book is not! [blurb from Nancy...
Scott Morrison’s covid dilemma
Pre 2020, I considered Scott Morrison a political enemy of the policies I wanted for Australia, but since then have sympathised with every attempt he...
Is the birthrate in Victoria dropping fast?
One of the things I keep track off in covid-times is what is happening to births. Though it was initially suggested couples might use their...
Peace, food prices, (hunger?) deaths and inequality
Now and then one should look up and see if there are any trends that are not usually talked about in the media but that...
Vale David Savage, behaviouralist extraordinaire
We lost David Savage this week to a heart attack at the age of 48, leaving a wife Deborah and many colleagues around the world....
Vale Ed Diener, Mr Happiness
Ed Diener, one of the best-known scholars of happiness died this week at the age of 76. He was known as Dr Happiness in the...
Lockdown cost-benefit analysis for Australia by Martin Lally
Martin Lally is a kiwi economist who late in 2020 decided to calculate for himself what his own country was losing by locking itself away...