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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias by Devin G. Pope, Joseph Price, Justin Wolfers - #19765 (LS PE) Abstract: Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among prof...
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Prologue to a blog post: Gentle Troppodillians, as you know, we keep up with the times here at Troppo. Some people like to think just five minutes ahead. Here at Troppo we're focused on the long-term - eons are seconds in TroppoTime - or seconds are eons depending on the way y...
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I'm a fan of Angel-list and have invested in two companies already over the platform (as trustee for Club Troppo's 4.7 billion self-managed super fund). Here's the disclaimer which you verify before you get to invest. I like it, though even here I'd rather just one or two clea...
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By clicking on the image you will be taken to the full demonstration of Brand *Santa* which has certainly impressed us here at Troppo. And I would like to take this opportunity on everyone's behalf to offer everyone else Seasons Greetings.
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We are off to the Badja. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3tMPfeI1w Dear Troppos, merry Christmas, have a good and happy time! John Walker and Anne E Sanders
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https://vimeo.com/82254326 I recently gave a presentation in Adelaide at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation which I chair. As you'll see, and perhaps to your surprise, there's a continuity between the way I've been thinking about the online world and social innovation...
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Last Monday I posted 4 questions to see who thought like a classic utilitarian and who adhered to a wider notion of ethics, suspecting that in the end we all subscribe to ‘more’ than classical utilitarianism. There are hence no 'right' answers, merely classic utilitarian ones...
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Abstract: We estimate habit formation in voting--the effect of past on current turnout--by exploiting transitory voting cost shocks. Using county-level data on U.S. presidential elections from 1952-2012, we find that precipitation on current and past election days reduces vote...
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Economists are wedded to utilitarianism as their collective moral compass. This is why we speak of social planners, welfare, utility maximization, and quality of life. The essence of utilitarianism is that moral judgments are reserved for final outcomes, not the means via whic...
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In the middle of this year a friend who had decamped to CSIRO from government wrote to me and asked me to participate in an interview exploring the economic impact of next generation broadband in Australia. Towards the end of his email he wrote. If you are willing to take part...
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In my last post on Troppo I raised this question: ...who’s actually running [Australia’s] foreign policy these days? Is it Julie Bishop, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, is it Scott Morrison as Minister for Immigration or is it some other bugger? The answer, it turns out, is ‘...
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="406"] Emotiv Insight & Google Glass on Emotiv CTO, Dr Geoffrey Mackellar.[/caption]
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Now that Holden is to stop making cars in Australia, we're already hearing about the impending death of Australian manufacturing . Before you descend into gloom, take a look at this manufacturing data from the World Bank . It sets out how manufacturing value-added has been mov...
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Here are some headlines marking various milestones of progress and regress in the Government 2.0 agenda. As we recommended in the Cutler Report donations to the global commons are growing apace. Meanwhile it's not surprising that the Scandinavians, who are some of the most imp...
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Hoist from archives for a brief re-appearance. [caption id="attachment_24972" align="alignright" width="350"] A value we hold dear at Troppo - what's there not to like about being open and authentic? A Christmas Season message from Troppo[/caption] A Troppo community service:...
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One of the big problems with public goods is choosing which to build. The goods themselves are joint in consumption but the community may not know, indeed is unlikely to know, how much to spend on one pubic good compared with the next. How much should be spent on guide dogs an...
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Do countries that are already rich become even happier when they become yet richer? This was the essential question on which I entered a gentleman’s bet in 2004 with Andrew Leigh and which just recently got settled. The reason for the bet was a famous hypothesis in happiness r...
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Scott Morrison was on RN Breakfast on Monday 25 November , hosing down the idea that the diplomatic row with Indonesia over past spying on the Indonesian President and his wife might impede Operation Sovereign Borders. That was the day before we embarked on the whole ‘Gonski i...
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When political parties want to convey vision they typically reach for slogans packed with values words like 'fairness' and 'strength'. But according to Ben Shimshon of BritainThinks : "Those grand vision words are almost always taken as a signal that what’s being said is just...
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