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China abandoned its one-child policy yesterday. Just about everything I’ve read since explains that this policy shift is a result of fears ...

I wrote a submission during the consultation on reforms to the Queensland planning system . As you are probably aware, my research in this a...

The below comic probably hits a little close to home for most economists. Poking fun of economists’ naive attachment to their particular bra...

Housing costs are typically 30% of household income, while about 43% of household savings are tied up in the value of owner-occupied dwell...

Laurence Murphy is a top property economist at the University of Auckland. I met him last night after a presentation in Sydney where he too...

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...