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The workhorse model of urban economics is the Alonso-Muth-Mills (AMM) model of the mono-centric city (the modern treatment is attributable t...

The mysterious real interest rate – the one typically denoted as r in economic theory – does not have a real-life counterpart. This is a pr...

In a previous article (“ Reforming Economics: The Challenge ”), I made the point that organising the jumbled schools of economic thought int...

And so the  debate   rages . Economics needs to change. Always does. The challenge of reforming economics cannot by overstated. Modern mai...

The planning process is often held to be partly to blame for housing prices in Australia. Unfortunately, there is very little data about the...

Reforming economics teaching has been a heated topic of debate since the financial crisis. My personal views on this align closely with ...

After decades of political pressure that systematically clawed back state and local government’s ability to tax land, the debate has now swu...

Humans are quite smart for hairless apes. But sometimes I wonder whether we really do have the edge over our distant cousins. Here’s an ex...

My  previous research  looked at favouritism in land rezoning via the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA) in Queensland. By looking at t...

My twitter feed has been aroused into fierce anti-capitalist protest. Welcome to 2016 I guess. This situation gives me chance to flesh...