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Mankiw's  Principles of Economics , the most widely used introductory economics textbook, can be held high as an iconic symbol of what i...

I was motivated by this article in The Economist about housing costs in London to really dig down to how most economists think about housi...

Now that Ford has finally closed its assembly plant we have a reason for the economics crowd to reveal the biases in their ‘model thinking’....

It’s budget time.  That means it’s time to switch off from the mainstream business news for a couple of weeks.  To help get you through I ha...

Readers would have noticed that some of my previous posts containing interactive graphs that require Mathematica CDF Player to view. Which...

Having studied the fundamental post-graduate economic courses last year I feel I can comment on this quite scary YouTube clip. Basically, th...

My recent post about timing the Australian property cycle concluded that, all things considered, the period over the next 2-3 years will pr...

I have written in the past about how social and economic networks are a necessary ingredient for a proper understanding of economic pattern...

One interpretation of recent data is that investors seem happy to jump back into Australian residential property markets. Perhaps due to...

Everywhere you turn it seems that higher rates of population growth are seen as a 'solution' to an ageing population.  Here's on...