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The Greens proposed in parliament to implement a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption with similar powers to the NSW Commission...

As I explained yesterday , saving by an individual is usually achieved by buying monopoly assets from others, forgoing consumption in ord...

I want to offer here a brief analysis of how I think about saving and investment, and why it is important to be very clear about these c...

I was prompted to write this follow-up on health economics after seeing a recent post by blogger Noah Smith, who weighs in with some rea...

The Budget’s proposed $7 GP co-payment fee seems quite benign to many people. After all, if you are genuinely sick or concerned about your...

As the Piketty-train rolls on it leaves behind it a trail of confusion in economic circles about the proposition to reduce inequality via ...

Poverty is a social issue that usually attracts the label ‘tough problem’. Sometimes, when a bit of flair is in order, it is labelled ...

The Lucas Critique is summarised by Mark Buchanan as follows: Any prior regularity that might have existed in a set of data had been...

Manchester University’s Post-Crash Economics Society (PCES) released a report recently into the way economics is currently taught at Ma...

The media attention surrounding French economist Thomas Piketty ’s new book Capital in the 21st Century is growing ever more fervent. H...