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In my submission to the Senate Inquiry on Housing Affordability I wrote the following Home ownership and reducing housing costs are...

I was in a seminar recently where the presenter explored some trends in income inequality in Australia, Canada and the US over the past cent...

Australia is embarking on another Inquiry into housing affordability . In the past decade almost every government body, at every level ...

I am reading Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The ...

Alex Tabarrok, who I rarely agree with, has recently argued his moral position on open borders here . There is no doubt that most moral ...

The ignorance of many highly experienced economists to the moral foundations of their work is quite alarming. As a group, economists typi...

The fanfare surrounding organ markets within the economics community is often extreme. For many it is the last frontier of market fund...

This post was sparked by a piece over at The Drum (ABC) by the CIS’s Matthew Taylor. My first mistake was to misunderstand the piece as...

One of the more coherent criticisms of our new theory of return-seeking firms  (now published here ) is that it’s not really about firms...

The title of this post reflects the tone of my casual reading list for about the last month. I wanted to provide a brief comment on some of ...