FET (old posts)

In post GFC naval-gazing discussions about the nature of the economics discipline important questions have arisen about the discipline’s gen...

Philip Soos does an excellent job of compiling and sharing long term Australian housing data. I don’t want to replicate that sort of compre...

“We are borrowing from the future” is a common phrase you might hear from economists musing about the state of the economy; about the be...

The econ-blogosphere has been Bitcoin crazy for a while now. I haven’t quite understood what all the fuss is about, and knowing the per...

My long term view , based on experience in the property development industry and in planning regulations for water and infrastructure, i...

I was motivated to write this post by fellow Australian young economist Gabriela D’Souza "After Taking Economics, Students Become Mor...

‘Economists do it with models’ is one of the favourite insider jokes of the econ tribe. I recently tweeted that it would be nicer if ec...

I've started Truman F. Bewley's book Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession .  The book reports Bewley's research program t...

Believing that the next generation of economists will be for more rigorous and honest about their research keeps me happy. Today I’m no...

Back in May 2013 I called the end of Australia's slow melt in home prices.  I based this call on a number of market measures, but the c...