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Brendan Markey-Towler Yes, it is the bullets, the bombs, the blood. Yes, it is that it could happen any time and to anyone. But these th...

For balance I follow a few people on Twitter at the opposite end of the political spectrum. I consciously try to avoid confirmation bias , a...

In the spirit of turning ideas on their head, let me put forward the case in favour of stamp duties on housing transactions. To be hone...

Money, Coordination and Prices (1998) Fieke van der Lecq Van der Lecq asks the question 'Why does money exist?' After an extensi...

My friend Unlearning Economics has a series of seven posts that pour cold water over the economics profession’s ridiculous defences of t...

I had a chat today with a freshly minted PhD from an elite US economic school about rationality and utility maximisation. As you do. Ther...

A four year long debate over the potential role of town planning regulations in determining the price of housing has occurred at MacroBus...

The claim of an Australian land and housing shortage is a myth of epic proportions , perpetuated by vested interests across the media landsc...

I came across this video today. It's a fairly concise argument about the rent-seeking activities and incentives that perpetuate bad econ...

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. ...