Nicholas Gruen

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

From the QAV podcast

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

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 

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 profoundly ignorant we are.   

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

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.

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 “Australia’s foremost public intellectual.” Many listeners will know of Nicholas’s work, through his published articles, reports and blog posts at Club Troppo and the Mandarin. He’s frequently quoted in national and international media, including the Financial Times. It’s challenging to summarise Nicholas’s wide-ranging career. He’s worked as a ministerial adviser and as a member of the Productivity Commission, and he has chaired several boards, including those of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, Innovation Australia, and, in its early days, the data science start up Kaggle, which was later acquired by Google. Nicholas certainly has the track record to be a credible authority on innovation. Gene's wide ranging conversation with Nicholas includes discussion of: innovation knowledge as a public good digital public goods government as impresario Nicholas's upcoming book on the public goods of the 21st century climate change policy citizens' juries If you're interested in Nicholas's Government as Impresario report mentioned in the podcast, you can find it on the Nesta website: Government as Impresario

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. 

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