FET (old posts)

For a second, consider of all our major public thinkers today. They do the opposite, constantly telling how sure they are of their beliefs ...

Today’s Australian CPI data, according to the headlines , was ‘lower than expected”.   This was the first part of a forecast I published her...

This Friday, 29 th October the Young Economists will host the launch of John Quiggin’s much anticipated , and creatively titled, book, Z...

For an environmental economist these words are blasphemous, but I said them, and I have good reason to.  The modern Limits to Growth movem...

Pool fences Could Queensland’s new tougher pool fence laws offer an opportunity to study the Peltzman Effect ? Will we now feel that pools a...

The release of a guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is receiving very poor media coverage. This headline – “Basin Authority holds its fi...

The Ultimatum Game works like this: You are given $100 and asked to share it with someone else. You can offer that person any amount and if ...

Australia’s complicated social security system often leaves me baffled. There are so many forms of assistance for families, with rates of be...

I have previously posted  about the Property Council of Australia’s cowboy approach to statistics to argue for pro-sprawl planning policies ...

I am pretty sure no one in Brisbane has ever said they do not ride for want of a bicycle. Nevertheless, Campbell Newman has spent $10millio...