Weekly roundup Saturday 2 August
Universities under stress (University of Melbourne)
Weekly roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy.
Economics
Universities: What Trump is doing to US universities we have been doing to our universities since 1986.
Productivity: Constructive ideas are coming forward for the government’s summit.
The Reserve Bank: The Governor gives a good Eco 1 lecture, but doesn’t really tell us much about its and the government’s choices of inflation data.
Labour mobility: Australians are becoming more docile. Why?
Politics
The Coalition's woes: How it stuffed up the election and how it keeps on stuffing up. Can someone put the Liberal Party out of its misery and let the grown-ups form a centre-right party?
Coddled presidents and prime ministers: Joe Biden’s loyal staff did him no favours. Our politicians face the same risk.
Public ideas
Journalism: "Stern and confronting" ideas from Geraldine Doogue.
How capitalism ends: A Ukrainian-born financial analyst, working for an Australian bank and living in New York, updates Marx's ideas on the way capitalism will end and what comes after
1960s recollections of university life
If you have comments, corrections, or links to other relevant sources, I’d like to hear from you. Please send them to Ian McAuley — ian, at the domain name ianmcauley.com
