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How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t
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How to raise first-home prices: Supercharge demand, and pretend you didn’t

David Walker
April 13, 2025April 16, 2025
Advice for homebuyers and citizens: home-deductibility and housing guarantee schemes both deserve your derisive laughter, whoever backs them. Introductory note: Things move fast in the...
Australian male violence against women: what the statistics say (and the media should report)
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Australian male violence against women: what the statistics say (and the media should report)

David Walker
April 29, 2024March 17, 2025
Amid Australia's justified concern over male violence against women, it seems worth keeping in mind our achievements. Femicide, in particular, has more than halved in...
Ethics Health Life Philosophy Social Policy Society

The Fertility Rate: the Best Dam(n) Wellbeing Index Going Around?

Antonios Sarhanis
February 1, 2023February 2, 2023
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that,...
Economics and public policy History Libertarian Musings Philosophy Political theory Social Policy

Economic Ideas and Policy Outcomes: Ross Garnaut’s Gruen Lecture

Nicholas Gruen
July 12, 2022
[caption id="attachment_36333" align="alignleft" width="1024"] Austro-Hungarian Economists[/caption] Below is Ross Garnaut's lecture in honour of my Dad. Economic Ideas and Policy Outcomes: Applications to Climate and...
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Critic swallows book

Nicholas Gruen
May 20, 2022June 3, 2022
The Sydney Book Review is my kind of book review. It's online and free. Ever since I joined the blogging revolution in 2005 it's seemed...
How Shorism might win Australia’s federal election
Economics and public policy Education Employment Inequality Politics - national Social Policy

How Shorism might win Australia’s federal election

David Walker
April 5, 2022April 7, 2025
Looking at Australian politics right now, one thing stands out: the federal ALP has become a little Shorist. That seems like a good idea. The...
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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