John Quiggin

I didn’t get a lot of responses to this invitation back in 2008, but I’m hoping for more now. I can offer video presentations on a wide range of topics (climate change, water, infrastructure, digital economy & culture, employment and macro policy in general, among others). As regards technology, it seems that Zoom is state of the art now. I’m hoping to have that set up so I can do it from home, which will allow more flexibility about time. Repost from 2008 With the release of the...

Back again with 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. If you would like to receive my (hopefully) regular email news, please sign up using the following link http://eepurl.com/dAv6sX You can also follow me on Twitter @JohnQuiggin, at my Facebook public page   and at my Economics in Two Lessons page Like this:Like Loading...

The Guardian has a number of short pieces from economists on the likely economic effects of the coronavirus, and what should be done about it. Here’s mine The government has finally recognised the correctness of the Rudd government’s response to the GFC The Australian economy was slowing even before the bushfire catastrophe and the arrival of coronavirus. The economic costs of the bushfires, including damage to property and infrastructure, long-term health effects of smoke...

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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Back again with 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. If you would like to receive my (hopefully) regular email news, please sign up using the following link http://eepurl.com/dAv6sX You can also follow me on Twitter @JohnQuiggin, at my Facebook public page   and at my Economics in Two Lessons page Like this:Like Loading...

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: collapsechronicles@gmail.com 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...