Joseph Noel Walker
@JosephNWalker
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Australia has relatively high state capacity. That is, our administrative state is unusually effective. This deserves study, but I was surprised to find that very little had been directly written on the topic. So the economist Peter Bowers and I produced a literature review.🧵
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RT @E61Institute: 🎙️Michael Brennan & @GregWKaplan joined @JosephNWalker today to record a podcast on boosting productivity growth in Austr….
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Is the explanation for this just that there can be greater capital deepening in a sector like agriculture?.
@JosephNWalker On farm productivity growth - especially in crop farming - has outpaced the rest of the economy for ages. 1) What does everyone else do all day? . 2) What can everyone else learn from farmers?.
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Does anyone know of a great summary / syllabus of the best papers from the urban agglomeration economies literature?. I'd expect to see, for eg, Marshall (1920), Ganong & Shoag (2017), Glaeser, Duranton & Puga, etc. (@s8mb, @MTabarrok, @mnolangray, @1finaleffort tagging you in.
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Recording a podcast next week with Greg Kaplan and Michael Brennan of e61, to discuss productivity growth and how to get more of it in Australia. What specific questions would you like to hear us discuss?.
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RT @JosephNWalker: New episode with Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis). While The End of History and the Last Man is arguably the most in….
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RT @StefanFSchubert: Stereotype inaccuracy - the US Army imported flatter hierarchies from the Wehrmacht
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Full conversation here:.
New episode with Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis). While The End of History and the Last Man is arguably the most influential work in political science of the past half-century, I wanted to focus on one of Frank's lesser-known books: Our Posthuman Future. In that book, he
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Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) on the most underrated theme in his body of work: . 'delegation within a hierarchy'. and why it matters for companies, armies, and bureaucracies
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Have been sitting on my Daylight Computer deposit because I feel like it's going to be more of the same.
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My problem with Kindles, iPads, e-readers. When I'm reading a book or a PDF, I jump around a lot. I like to, e.g., flip to the index to see if the author treats a particular idea that's just occurred to me; turn back a few pages to remind myself of something; grasp the structure.
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Maybe it never left.
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RT @AnnaLeptikon: How does he do it. @JosephNWalker produces one of my favorite podcasts, with a wonderful line of conversations talking a….
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New episode with Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis). While The End of History and the Last Man is arguably the most influential work in political science of the past half-century, I wanted to focus on one of Frank's lesser-known books: Our Posthuman Future. In that book, he
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RT @clarejtbirch: I would bet it would raise it!. Australia should seed a bunch of smaller, focused, private R&D orgs with open + commercia….
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*Of course, TFP is not the main or only metric by which the CSIRO should be judged. But it seems relevant.
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If the CSIRO closed down tomorrow, how would that impact Australia's TFP* over the next, say, 10 years?. There's a good chance that closing it down would *raise* TFP, by moving more researchers into the private sector, where they might be more productive. Why am I wrong?.
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