The Policy Shop
Summary: A podcast at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Policy Shop is where national and global public policy is examined. Guests include Nobel laureates Sir Angus Deaton and Harold Varmus, writer Germaine Greer, author and academic Michael Ignatieff, former UN under-secretary, Baroness Valerie Amos, and Big Data entrepreneur Anthony Goldbloom. Listed by iTunes as new and noteworthy, subscribe for the latest episodes.
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Podcasts:
Kaggle founder talks Big Data
To Quota or not to Quota
What is a fair amount for university students to pay?
Deaths of Despair - Sir Angus Deaton
Michael Ignatieff on the battle for freedom in Hungary
Where did all the money go?
The hidden crime - domestic violence
Innovating with industry - what is next?
Why are we so ANGRY? - Peter Singer in conversation
What is a refugee?
'Australia has no business plan'
Ramachandra Guha and Patricia Werhane join Glyn Davis to discuss the global problem of poverty. What’s the best way to tackle poverty - through the market, the state, or non-government organisations? And what can we learn from the Indian experience? And what can we learn from the Indian experience? Dr. Ramachandra Guha is the pre-eminent historian of post-Independence India, and author of many works including India after Gandhi. Professor Emeritus Patricia Werhane holds a joint appointment at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and at DePaul University Chicago, where she is Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics and director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics.
In the US presidential election the politics of personality has ‘Trumped', leaving the election of the most powerful leader in the world a policy free zone.
Dr David Halpern and Prof Abigail Payne join Prof Glyn Davis to discuss the growing influence of nudge. So what exactly is it? Is it ethical? And can it really encourage us to eat less sugar or pay our parking fines on time?
Melbourne has experienced a 74% street count increase in homelessness in the past two years. Why? What about those homeless across Australia? What policies can be implemented to assist them? What learning's can we glean from other countries?
