Insecure work
A recent tweet from the NTEU ACT Division (@NTEUACT) Australia has 2nd highest level of insecure work in OECD – after Spain. We know that we are approaching 40% of the workforce undertaking insecure...
View ArticleOECD – Australia – Going for Growth
The OECD has published a series of country notes that assesses progress that countries have made in responding to Going for Growth policy recommendations since 2011. It identifies and discusses new...
View ArticleLimits to Growth …was right…
Source: The Guardian I was a school student when this first Club of Rome Report was widely heralded. I was in University studying Geography, History, Literature and Politics when I looked closely at...
View ArticleForecasters Forecasting Forecasts
Tim Harford wrote a piece in ft.com earlier this year, documenting the [not-so-surprising] inaccuracy and just-plain “wrongfulness” of economic forecaster[s] [ing]…… In the 2001 issue of the...
View ArticleR > G
Capital in the 21st Century “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, written by the French economist Thomas Piketty I am yet to finish reading this, but earlier this year, the economist said: “Capital”...
View ArticleTechnology, Talent, Tolerance
Australia tops Global Creativity Index Mapping the connection between cities, inequality, and creative economics http://t.co/ZaHzQscksk pic.twitter.com/0Udmiy6Z6S — CityLab (@CityLab) July 9, 2015
View ArticleThe world’s Income
The team at HowMuch.net continue their excellent work. The full article can be found here. The Global Finance Magazine recently released an article comparing countries by income across the world for...
View ArticleHans. How not to be ignorant
At a time when it appears revealed truths, beliefs and opinions are increasingly privileged in public and political debate,there was always Hans… Vale, Hans Rosling Links The ignorance project...
View Article50 Years on – Limits to Growth
The Club of Rome’s report from 1972 is 50 years old. I read it when it was first published… A sobering and influential read then. What’s changed in that time? World Model Standard Run as shown in The...
View ArticleTimes like these…
At times like these, it’s worth considering the words of Carl Sagan. Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you...
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