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One strange claim in the economic debate that followed the financial crisis was the impact of uncertainty on the path of investment and ...

One thing you will notice early on about economics is the overuse of the term intuition. Typically the term is used like this — “Let me ...

I want to show how the morality on display in the movie 300 , in which babies are cast into a chasm for minor deformities or other weakne...

The case of Herbert Sukenik being paid $17 million in 2005 to leave his rent-controlled NYC apartment has been receiving a great deal ...

We commonly use stories to teach new ideas, but all too often end up taking the wrong lessons from them. My favourite example is the Coa...

The reserved and mild-mannered American Canadian law Professor James Allan , who works at an under-performing Australian university, has re...

Kieran Latty produced this chart on wages share and investment share in OECD countries. If we take this at face value it implies the existe...

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 ...