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Don’t want risky business? Hire women

Huffington Post / Thursday, 8 October 2009

Banks should recruit more ladies in this messy GFC world. Women are better money managers, aren’t as overconfident and don’t have the pumping levels of testosterone that encourage risk taking. But will feminisation mean less pay?

John Quiggin: The risk society, part four

Crikey / Tuesday, 31 July 2007

In the fourth part of a serialised paper first published by the Centre for Policy Development, University of Queensland economist John Quiggin writes that an improved understanding of risk can contribute to the development of a modernised social democratic model.

Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

Crikey / Monday, 23 July 2007

Enough is enough on Haneef … the poll swing … resurrecting the Senate … CASA’s cone of silence … Labor is not a party of reform … MacBank’s millionaires …

John Quiggin: The risk society, part one

Crikey / Monday, 23 July 2007

“Risk” may be a central idea of the early 21st century, just as “globalisation” was the dominant idea of the 1990s. The fact that individuals and families are vulnerable to a wide range of social, economic and other risks - and that collective action is needed to help reduce and manage these risks - has long been an important theme in social-democratic thinking.

Plenty worse from whence Bridgecorp came

Crikey / Thursday, 5 July 2007

With the Australian arm of Bridgecorp following its Kiwi subsidiary into administration, ASIC if facing the further embarrassment of more high-yield debenture collapses just waiting to happen.