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John Quiggin
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John Quiggin's personal blog at johnquiggin.com covers economics and politics. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Blog of economist John Quiggin, linked on HN as a source on topics including nuclear power, bitcoin, China's urbanization, New Zealand's productivity and tech antitrust. Commenters mostly cite posts as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Commentary on Australian and world events from a socialist and democratic viewpoint
What Hacker News says?
Sadly, giving up on the washing machine is giving up one on of the great labour saving inventions, and going back towards the time when washing took at least one woman-day per week. http://johnquiggin.com/2012/05/03/housework-in-utopia/ http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...
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on “How to Get Your Apartment Off the Grid”Submitted Why spies never discover anything useful as a story · 83 points
HN discussionEconomist John Quiggin claims that low NZ performance relative to Australia is because of its central bank being fighting inflation to the point of causing unnecessary recessions. Source: 4th paragraph here: http://johnquiggin.com/2011/05/19/9813/ Edit: Please note that the gravity model of trade is an approximate empirical observation of trade, not economic growth. Australia is just as isolated as is NZ and yet far…
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on “Why isn’t New Zealand richer and more productive?”Submitted The Opportunity Cost of War (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe US is the economic leader in tech because network effects in tech strongly favors monopolies, and the US does not do antitrust enforcement anymore. The US tech sector makes money hand over fist not because of its technology but because the various tech firms have been allowed to monopolize their respective market areas. See e.g.: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544 https://johnquiggin.com/…
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on “U.S. Google antitrust case set to expand with GOP states joining”Submitted Education is an investment, not a filter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://johnquiggin.com/2013/06/16/urbanization-in-china/ clarification by a guy who does numbers for a living..
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on “A staggering migration – 250M people into Chinese cities in 12-15 years [video]”We are currently having some parliamentary inquiries in Australia to start a nuclear program. I have always been against talk of nuclear on two main grounds [0,1] (but against decommissioning existing plants). However a local economist has argued (and costed) for a way to make nuclear viable in this country. Tldr: a carbon price. https://johnquiggin.com/2019/08/23/what-price-nuclear-power/ [0] Time/Cost (in aus, thi…
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on “Why California May Go Nuclear”http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2009/05/03/austria... Also, http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/04... And, this is the most readable, but keep in mind that it's written by a Keynesian: http://www.slate.com/id/9593 Austrian economics, at its core, is based on praxeology and mostly rejects models, math and science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology
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on “Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes”An Australian perspective on nuclear.. Basically that whenever someone posts pro nuclear responses to climate change issues they are directly or indirectly (and it doesn't really matter which) supporting the coal lobby. Thus argument might not be directly applicable where you are from, but chances are its probably not far off. https://johnquiggin.com/2018/08/13/coal-and-the-nuclear-lobb...
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on “Climate change has doubled the frequency of ocean heatwaves”> Bitcoins will attain their true value of zero sooner or later, but it is impossible to say when... Bitcoins are the most demonstrably valueless financial asset ever created It looks like John Quiggin is basing his views upon his extensive prior research[1] into Bitcoin, and he is not simply jumping onto the bandwagon like so many other economists. [1] http://johnquiggin.com/?s=bitcoin
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on “The Bitcoin Bubble and a Bad Hypothesis”Quite. John Quiggan has one of the better responses, and lists others: https://johnquiggin.com/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-the... Also at Crooked Timber, with extensive comments, some Worstall than others: https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t... Nabokov's response (similarly titled "I, Pencil"): https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t... "I, Residential Mortgage-back…
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on “I, Pencil (1958)”
