Episodes

Intellectual property: High handed conduct, low hanging fruit 26.01.2021 39:03

A presentation to the Australian Digital Alliance Policy Forum National Library of Australia , Canberra, 4th March, 2011

Nicholas Gruen on Modern Monetary Theory 28.11.2020 58:45

From the QAV podcast

Should we select the upper house by lot? 18.11.2020 31:05

Discussion on Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff, ABC Radio Adelaide, 20th Sept, 2020

Nicholas Gruen on evidence-based policy and the Evaluator General 20.05.2020 56:26

Other relevant links are as follows The Catch 22 at the heart of evidence-based policy or our failure at it A submission to the Thodey Review proposing the Evaluator General   The Evaluator General can generate a new professionalism 

Coronavirus: decision making give uncertainty 26.03.2020 38:35

In this interview, I discuss how Coronavirus provides us with an example of decision making under uncertainty. Although it is a case of decision making under EXTREME uncertainty, a great deal of policy making, I'd say most, should be understood as essentially the same. It might be more 'normal' but what stands out is our ignorance. Certainly in the social sciences, we should never forget how profo...

The competition delusion 11.02.2020 11:58

An interview I did on the ABC program Future Tense on my Griffith Review article " Trust and the competition delusion ". 

What economic reform thinking might have looked like – if we’d bothered to do it. With Martin Wolf 03.01.2020 1:27:43

A talk given in London on Nov 14th 2018. This was the paper distributed with the talk, itself 'internationalised' from this essay which focuses on Australia – the slides of which can be downloaded from this link .

Nicholas Gruen is interviewed by Gene Tunny on innovation (with some discussion of democracy) 02.11.2019 56:22

Gene Tunny has provided the following program notes on his own podcast . In this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses innovation and digital public goods with his colleague Dr Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics. Nicholas is a well-known Australian economist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Australia’s former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner once described Nicholas as “Aust...

The Competition Delusion Episode 1 01.11.2019 10:20

Whether or not we have private affluence and public squalor in the economy generally as J.K. Galbraith argued regarding the American economy in the 1950s, we have it in the world of ideas. 

Fiscal Position - Sep 2019 15.10.2019 8:25

The need for an Evaluator General 24.08.2019 10:43

2.0 Is Changing Definitions Of Public Goods. Or Is It? 17.04.2019 31:04

In an interview with Radio2.0, Nicholas Gruen, economist and former chair of the Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce debates the ways in which 2.0 thinking and technologies are changing economic definitions of public goods. In this far-ranging discussion, Nicholas explains how Gov 2.0 is a nexus between 'Jefferson's dream' of the transformative potential of ideas as public goods, and 'Schumpeter's nightm...

Gruen on Krugman 08.08.2018 13:25