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Club Troppo Is On The (Hiccoughing) Move
Huge thanks to the long suffering Jacques for all his work on Troppo over the decades. And thanks now to Antonios who’s managed to transfer Troppo to a new internet host and massively improve the speed of the site and … Continue reading
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George Bush, Bruno Latour and the end of postmodernism
For discussion: one of the far right’s greatest achievements in the past decade has been to show post-modernists how wrong they were. Let me explain. In a famous 2004 article on the Iraq War, the New York Times journalist Ron … Continue reading
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An overheard bus conversation. Recounted without comment.
A) Hey, you know what today is? Invasion Day! B) What? A) Invasion Day. B) Invasion Day? A) Yeah, ’cause it’s the day they invaded us Kooris. B) Oh, InVASion Day A) So all those people wearing Australian flags are … Continue reading
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Urban Planning and Corporate Governance.
The Sydney Morning Herald has been trumpeting a study they supported by on the future of Sydney’s public transport and urban structure. Beneath the being overly pleased with themselves, with we’re above petty politics harrumphing there is a genuine effort … Continue reading
Google’s doodle boo boo?
Google removes Aboriginal flag from winning Doodle 4 Google entry Last year 11 year old Jessie Du won Google’s Doodle 4 Google competition with her entry ‘Australia Forever’. Displayed on Google’s homepage for Australia Day, the doodle features Australian animals … Continue reading
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Quantifying Institutions Part 2 : Religion AND Politics
In the first post of this series I described recent work in empirical institutional economics and why I thought the work pursued a virtuous end but was compromised by the use of poor institutional measures. Today I will introduce a … Continue reading
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