Democracy: doing it for ourselves
https://youtu.be/6uPex480hRU Above is the video of a presentation I made at NESTA in London on 15th November with discussants Claire Mellior and Martin Wolf. I...
Wellbeing: can we escape the iron law of business-as-usual?
https://youtu.be/Gb9oSVE1zNs I really enjoyed this week’s uncomfortable collision with reality with colleague Gene Tunny. We covered a lot of ground talking about the use and...
How did the Chilean left crash their referendum?
I’ve been looking for an explainer of what’s been going on in Chile and, thanks to Brad Delong for pointing it out. Of particular interest...
AI: is it coming for us? (No) Is it a big deal (Yes)
I've started posting things here that I'm drafting for my weekend newsletter — which you can subscribe to here — so here's another tidbit. This...
Confessions of an econocrat-watcher: Ross Gittins
Here is Ross Gittin's talk to ACT Economic Society Annual Dinner, Canberra, given on Thursday 3, 2022 I’m very pleased to be invited to talk...
The David Solomon Lecture: Government 2.0 a couple of years on . . .
https://youtu.be/ftssK9b8WFI Finding a formatting mess when I looked this up on Troppo, I've reposted it here for the record. I'm a bit embarrassed by my...
The political economy of Medicare
I always say that political economy is the best (or least worst) lens through which to examine how health systems work. This goes for Medicare,...