The Great Covid Panic: now out!
It's here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10...
Pragmatic utilitarianism?
I have been a utilitarian for about 30 years now and am seen in my academic work as an extreme version of the genre. I...
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...
How others are organising the Covistance: ideas for those who want to help.
How are we going to escape the authoritarian nightmare and regain our liberties and zest for life? This long read is written for organisers of...
Constant distractions are leading to major declines in top-level reasoning. What to do?
Till 20 year ago, IQ scores in the West increased about 3 points per decade ever since the 1920s, a phenomenon known as the “Flynn...
Could lock-downs lead to a baby boom in several Western countries? If so, why?
For months now, demographers and other social scientists have been predicting a covid baby bust because marriages were postponed, pubs were closed, anxiety levels were...
Adam Smith was a feminist economist: Care – the essay
This recent essay in the Mandarin is a reworking of an essay I wrote in 2016 in a string of essays in which I developed the idea of the Evaluator...