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I hate high house prices but I am a realist, and I trust the numbers. While history doesn’t always repeat, right now I can hear it rhyme. ...

Guest post Sydney Morning Herald’s economics editor Ross Gittins recently wrote a scathing article about the quality of policy advice c...

Matt Bruenig has stirred up Noah Smith by laying out why life-coaching is a foolish way to address poverty, since most people churn into...

Exponential growth is one of those things that confuses many people. Here's probably the best example getting traction in social media a...

Paul Egan and Philip Soos [1] have a new book out. It available for free  here  (pdf), and it’s called Bubble Economics: Australian Land Spe...

I like Krugman. He takes a common sense approach to economics and writes clearly for a broad audience. But, like others , I have to take i...

The big news in Australian politics has been the new rabble of Senators. David Leyonhjelm of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is one ...

The sociology of economics is intriguing. While many observers note the tribalism of the discipline, with the mainstream tribe being the lar...

I am reading Ha-Joon Chang’s new book Economics: The User’s Guide . About half way through he makes a big effort to explain that GDP is qui...

With my upcoming debate on entitlement in Australia I though I'd better watch Insight on SBS to see what punters think. If you misse...