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Democracy and the 15 Hour Week

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British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in an essay, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930), that by 2030 our grandchildren would be working a 15 hour week, due to the power of compound interest  and to technological advances.  Keynsian economics gradually gained acceptance during the 1930s, then revolutionized global government economic policy in the aftermath […]

Tags: 15 hour week, ABC Fact check, Australia Institute Centre for Future Work, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Hospitals and Healthcare Association, Brexit, CHOICE, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, Global Financial Crisis (GFC), John Maynard Keynes, Keynsian economics, Monetarism, National Rural Health Alliance., neoliberalism, Productivity Commission, Public Health Association of Australia, Trump

Public Service Rigor or Rigor Mortis?

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Is the Australian Public Service suffering from undue diligence and scientific rigor mortis? Some articles and speeches this month explain the need to move the APS from bureaucratic rigmarole to scientific rigor. One of the most blistering and persuasive articles of the year comes in a 14.12.2016 article in The Mandarin, Evidence-based policy: missing in […]

Tags: 2016 CSIRO-Monash Superannuation Conference, ageing and retirement incomes, digital transformation, Evidence-based policy, overcoming Indigenous disadvantage, Productivity Commission, The Mandarin

Think Yourself Lucky

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“The positive brain is 31% more productive than the brain in a negative, neutral or stressed state.” This quote is from a September 6, 2016 article in The Conversation, How happiness improves business results by Professor Petrina Coventry, University of Adelaide. The article notes that “Surveys from the American management consulting company Gallup continue to […]

Tags: 15 Percent Time, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, Comparison theory, electronic health records (EHRs), Google Docs, Happiness at work, Innovation fatigue, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Medicare privatization debate, Positive brain, Productivity Commission, UK GDS

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