All Episodes
Nicholas Gruen — 148 episodes · page 1 of 2
Superannuation: The ALP's Maginot Line (With Leon Gettler)
90% of Voters Hate This, But Politicians Do It Anyway
Me on Curious World View
Can random citizens fix what party politics broke?
How we confuse winning with worth
Economic and political reform, with John Humphreys and Gene Tunny
Presentation 1 at NEXT - Awakening our better angels
International councils of citizens: can they moderate the madness?
Me on Alex Kaschuta's Subversive podcast
Complexity, clichés and bullshit: Me versus Rory Sutherland
Me on ABC Hobart on the proposed Hobart Stadium (after Minister Abetz)
Trump's tariffs and trust in the US
The dirty electoral funding deal: How to get something better
A role for juries in electoral democracy?
The people's house: building a new institution
An interview from 2016 arguing for more vigorous rate cuts
The proposed Hobart AFL Stadium
Interview on the Hobart stadium
Kamala's and Donald's economic policies
Me on economic forecasting
The Robodebt non-investigation
Economics: is complexity the answer?
Me, Margo Kingston and Peter Clarke on the Transit Zone
Fessing up to the fudges in ESG
Chatting with Steve Austin about the Government's Wellbeing Framework
Elite Capture: Christianity Wrote the Playbook!
Changes to the RBA
Why ESG is a puppet show
How did we get from "How Can I Help" to "How Can Govt Help Me?
Risk: protecting the children or protecting the system? CEO on Disadvantaged youth
Promoting Wellbeing or Anti-thinking?
What a wellbeing budget would look like: Hint, not like Jacinta's budgets
The $100B lying on the pavement
Four ways to fix the world
Engines of Oligarchy: with Hugh Pope
Science: How it obscures reality
Talking with the ABC's Steve Austin about wellbeing.
Promoting Wellbeing or Anti-thinking?
Wellbeing: escaping the iron law of business-as-usual
Walking while chewing gum: Spurring innovation and fighting recession
Bureaucracy as oppression: The case of out of home care
Who belongs on the RBA board?
How we all became competitors
Uncomfortable collisions with reality: Jarrod Wheatley on saving abused and neglected kids
Democracy: forking the project
NG on Economic Rockstar
Should we just suit ourselves?
Getting the best without competition
Where did you stand when the right went toxic?
Four foundational principles for a flourishing organisation or society: Part One
Amateurs or experts: who should you trust?
The republic: a way forward (and plenty of other things)
Transparency: It's role in strangling democracy
Should politics be boring?
Once more on democracy
The right to be Heard: Red, green or Amber?
Internalise and compromise or divide and rule: a chat with Leon Gettler
Idols of the modern mind: stragisation, thematisation and theorisation
The Iron law of business-as-usual: What is it and can we escape it?
Include and compromise — don’t divide and conquer: Tendrils of Hope from Australia.
Could social media drive better civic conversation?
Fast foodification: what is it, what's driving it, how do we stop it?
Death by wellbeing
Building institutions for human flourishing
The public goods of the 21st-century
Mark Zuckerberg or Muhammad Yunus?
Four foundational principles for a flourishing organisation or society: Part Two
What are we missing? Foundational principles from the deep
Will you join me in the alt-centre?
How come stoicism is suddenly a thing?
How Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent courage viral
How Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent courage viral
Tackling American Autocracy: That Trippi Show
Democracy works to exclude everyday people: Me on 2GB
Love, truth, freedom and flattery: Mal Meninga v King Lear
Mal Meninga and virtue in politics
Toxic Careerism in Politics
Knowledge and its enemies
With Crikey's Bernard Keane on democracy, corruption and citizens' assemblies.
Thermonuclear terms
We need the eggs: How keeping up appearances keeps us from the truth
Discussion with Leon Delaney with Canberra Radio station 2CC
Wellbeing, mental health and COVID
The art of the short rising ball: getting to where the conversation should be at
Paying attention and thinking about politics
The art of paying attention
Rethinking democracy with juries: Podcast with Jim O'Shaugnessey on Infinite Loops
Skimming the surface or plumbing the depths
A people's bank
Disequilibrium and Musical Chairs
Hegel, Fidelio and Emu: Podcast with Tyson Yunkaporta
Jokes and other things with Tyson Yunkaporta Oct 2021
Prominent Australian economist Dr Nicholas Gruen gives his thoughts on both David Graeber's BS jobs thesis and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
The placebo effect is too valuable to ignore
Eureka Podcast: Nicholas Gruen talks with Misha Saul
The Greatest Music of All Time: Nicholas Gruen edition
My Favourite Economist on the micro-economics of the miracle of the internet
Nicholas Gruen on the value of public data and scientific infrastructure
The case for more independent fiscal policy has never been stronger
Objectivity in science and the art of evidence based policy