John Quiggin

In this week's edition of Voices From the Doomosphere, I have the pleasure of speaking with Australian economist John Quiggin. Here is a link to John's excellent website: https://johnquiggin.com/ If you would like to support Humptydumptytribe and Collapse Chronicles, there are several ways you can do that. Thank you! If you would like to support my Patreon page, here is a link to that: www.patreon.com/user?u=5140032 Here is the link to my new Go Fund Me campaign:...

In this week's edition of Voices From the Doomosphere, I have the pleasure of speaking with Australian economist John Quiggin. Here is a link to John's excellent website: https://johnquiggin.com/ If you would like to support Humptydumptytribe and Collapse Chronicles, there are several ways you can do that. Thank you! If you would like to support my Patreon page, here is a link to that: www.patreon.com/user?u=5140032 Here is the link to my new Go Fund Me campaign:...

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In this week's Collapse Chronicles conversation, I have the pleasure of speaking with Australian economist John Quiggin. Here is a link to John's excellent website: https://johnquiggin.com/ If you would like to support Collapse Chronicles, there are several ways you can do that. Thank you!: Here is the link to my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5140032 Here is where you can send a donation via PayPal: [email protected] If you would like to send a physical check or...

As I’ve said a few times before, I’m not a big fan of scandals. With much of the country burned over the last season (not even last summer, it started in June) and coronavirus in the way, our supposed leaders could do better than argue about handouts for boatsheds. But the corruption is obvious, and someone has to pay. So, here’s my suggestion. Morrison’s chief of staff, John Kunkel admits that he ran the entire show (given that he was in charge of Morrison’s office, this is highly...

Next week, as I’ve mentioned, I’ll take part in a debate/dialogue with Stephen Hicks, a North American philosopher, who has criticised postmodernism from a right/libertarian perspective. He’s on a tour of Australia, and was invited to Brisbane by Murray Hancock who’s setting up The Brisbane Dialogue which has the ambitious objective of promoting civil discussion across political divides. I ended up being dobbed in (is this an Australianism?) to present the other side, and chose the...

I’ve got quite a few events coming up in the next ten days. I’ll be in Adelaide for the Writers Week (program here), appearing at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden, King William Road on Wednesday 4 March at 2pm in conversation with Jane Goodall, on the theme the Common Good. I’ll be signing copies of Economics in Two Lessons. I’ve fitted in two earlier events on Tuesday 3 March. At 12 noon, I’ll be talking about the economic cost of the bushfire disaster, at the University of...

The news of deaths from bird flu in Indonesia is pretty scary. Although, as I’ve mentioned recently Indonesia has made a lot of progress in many respects, the handling of this threat so far seems to show the worst of both worlds: all the ill ffects of authoritian habits combined with the timidity of weak politicians. There have been a lot of coverups, and an unwillingness to tackle the necessary but unpopular task of slaughtering affected flocks of birds. Things seem to be improving...

I’m one of 10 000 Australian academics who signed an open letter to Unisuper (our industry superannuation fund) calling for a policy of divestment from carbon-based fuels. The first step in such a policy has to be divestment from thermal coal. Purely on fiduciary grounds, getting out of thermal coal is now a matter of cashing out before the assets are completely unsaleable. Just in the last week, here’s a list of investors, ranging from small institutions to financial giants that have...