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Robin Brown

Robin Brown

Deepening Democracy

Trust, Transparency, Four Arms of Government and Four Critical Professions

Oct 30, 2023

Deepening Democracy

Oct 30, 2023

Robin Brown

Exploitation and Fairness

Most of us would see exploiting another person’s weakness for personal gain as morally wrong. But it is not when fully informed opponents…

Oct 28, 2023

Oct 28, 2023

Robin Brown

The Peculiar challenges of regulating professionals

Summary

Oct 28, 2023

Oct 28, 2023

Robin Brown

Are humans essentially good or pro-social? If so, why do people do bad, anti-social things?

In Human Kind (see ref 1) Rutger Bregman sets out to answer these questions. He answers the first in the affirmative; that is…

Oct 20, 2022

Oct 20, 2022

Robin Brown

Fixing the Government of Oz

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief…

Sep 28, 2022

Fixing the Government of Oz

Sep 28, 2022

Robin Brown

The Fermi Paradox, immortal intelligent being and Albert Camus

Entropy’s hegemony in the universe might well have been short lived. Reverse entropy living systems have probably been around since the…

Jul 26, 2022

The Fermi Paradox, immortal intelligent being and Albert Camus

Jul 26, 2022

Robin Brown

Unjust deserts — When is work wasted?

Does working and what we produce help society and improve our own wellbeing? And if it does, how much does our work help society and is…

May 23, 2022

Unjust deserts — When is work wasted?

May 23, 2022

Robin Brown

Donating — Why, Where and How Much?

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” Winston Churchill

May 7, 2022

Donating — Why, Where and How Much?

May 7, 2022

Robin Brown

Wealth of Nations or Why Lots of Tax can be Really, Really Good

There seems to be a tendency these days to suggest that a nation’s engine of wealth generation is business and only business. The current…

Nov 30, 2017

Nov 30, 2017

Robin Brown

Regulation — how important has it been in removing the “great (and not so great) positive evils of…

Robin Brown

Jul 31, 2017

Regulation — how important has it been in removing the “great (and not so great) positive evils of…

Jul 31, 2017

Robin Brown

Robin Brown

I’m interested in too many things, but try to focus on citizen participation, consumer policy, environment policy and international development

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