John Quiggin

That’s the title of a presentation I gave to a workshop on UBI run by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. I wasn’t able to attend in person so I called in for my session. The result is that I can’t give a summary of the event, but Tim Hollo has one here. My presentation is here. Also, there’s a Facebook group and a couple of useful links.

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’ve seen quite a number of church leaders making statements in support of a No response to the Turnbull government’s ABS survey on equal marriage. In nearly every case, there isn’t much of an argument on the merits of why the state should enforce their views about marriage. Rather, they express concerns that, if equal marriage is allowed, they will be forced to conduct marriages, or to employ members of same-sex married couples. This seems like a nonsense to me. If that is the real...

A crucial part of the case for the Adani coal project is the “pit to plug” strategy in which companies in the Adani Group would mine coal in the Galilee Basin, transport it by rail to Abbot Point, ship it from there to India, burn it in Adani Power’s coal-fired power stations and sell the generated electricity to Indian consumers. This claim is important to Adani for three reasons * First, it is supposed to mean the big decline in the world price of coal since the project began is not a...

Home > Politics (general) > What’s left of libertarianism? What’s left of libertarianism? August 14th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Liberaltarianism ….. This post (crossposted from Crooked Timber) is mainly an excuse for the pun in the title. But I do want to defend both parts of the pun. First, liberaltarianism, as represented by the Niskanen Center (notable staff and associates include Radley Balko,...

Home > Regular Features > Monday Message Board Monday Message Board August 14th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by...

Home > Boneheaded stupidity, World Events > Millennials are people, not clones Millennials are people, not clones August 11th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments The Washington Post has an article on millennial attitudes to Trump, broken down by race/ethnicity. The results won’t surprise anybody who’s been paying even minimal attention. Other things equal, millennials are even more hostile to Trump than Americans...

Home > Environment > Alternatives to Adani Alternatives to Adani August 9th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments It’s obvious to anyone who cares to look that the Adani rail-mine-port project is an environmental and economic disaster area, and that claims that it will generate thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue are nonsense. But that’s little comfort to people in the region, facing high...

Home > Regular Features > Sandpit Sandpit August 7th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments A new sandpit for long side discussions, conspiracy theories, idees fixes and so on. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by email. Alternatives to Adani Monday Message Board RSS...

Home > Regular Features > Monday Message Board Monday Message Board August 7th, 2017 John Quiggin Leave a comment Go to comments Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. Categories: Regular Features Tags: Notify me of follow-up comments by email.Notify me of new posts by...