From ABC Radio National's Science Show. 

We hear people criticise the cost of the census. In Australia it happens every five years. There is also debate over the collection of medical data. Nicholas Gruen has studied the value of public information such as that provided by the census. He says there are clear cost benefits to collecting data and making it available. The Public Health Research Network generates $16 for each dollar spent on it. And the census generates $6 for each dollar spent.

Originally broadcast on Sat 18 Jan 2020.

In a March 2021 Financial Times article Dr Nicholas Gruen proposed an independent fiscal policy advisory body so that fiscal policy is freed from political tinkering. Economics Explored host Gene Tunny speaks with Dr Gruen about his proposal in this episode.

Nicholas Gruen is interviewed by Michael Lester for Northern Beaches Radio on this essay. 

Nicholas Gruen, economist and former chair of the Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce debates the ways in which 2.0 thinking and technologies are changing economic definitions of public goods.

Podcast with John Wells, June 7th, 2012 

A presentation to the Australian Digital Alliance Policy Forum

From the QAV podcast

Discussion on Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff, ABC Radio Adelaide, 20th Sept, 2020

Other relevant links are as follows

The Catch 22 at the heart of evidence-based policy or our failure at it

A submission to the Thodey Review proposing the Evaluator General 

The Evaluator General can generate a new professionalism 

In this interview, I discuss how Coronavirus provides us with an example of decision making under uncertainty. Although it is a case of decision making under EXTREME uncertainty, a great deal of policy making, I'd say most, should be understood as essentially the same. It might be more 'normal' but what stands out is our ignorance. Certainly in the social sciences, we should never forget how profoundly ignorant we are.   

An interview I did on the ABC program Future Tense on my Griffith Review article "Trust and the competition delusion".