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Australia’s economic commentariat is now almost unanimously on board with the idea that stamp duties on property transactions are immensely ...

Australia's new libertarian Senator David Leyonhjelm has called for a Senate Inquiry into Australia's creeping 'nanny state'...

Last year I presented the idea that perhaps a firm objective function of maximising their rate of return on all costs is more consisten...

This week I'm attending the Australian Conference of Economics . The main event today was a debate on the topic that economics educati...

Since I last wrote about the issue I think we have all decided to just call it marriage now . Four years ago I hadn’t put much thought int...

If you click the news link above you will see that  my research on land rezoning decisions  and the relationship networks of land owners has...

I’ve written twice now on the spurious ideas in the division of labour story as an underlying cause of productivity growth in economics. ...

Division of labour. It’s a thing. A big thing in economics. But like many core economic concepts[1] it is mostly an endless repository of ...

Debates about housing affordability in Australia are clouded by the belief that renting is an inferior substitute to home ownership. Ren...

Like many well-trained economists, I took  Adam Smith’s argument  about the productivity gains from the division of labour at face value. It...