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I’m not saying all economists can’t answer these questions. I’m saying that collectively these are core parts of what the discipline of econ...

Last week the RBA released a research paper  which sought to unravel the potential effect of planning controls, like zoning, on home prices ...

I have often argued with libertarians (and anarchists) that the existence of property rights first requires the existence of a government w...

I have a new paper out — Developers pay developer charges in Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. In this pape...

Review of Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter I can save you $13 and summarise this book for you — a rich white ...

One of the best models of competitive markets in an economy is an evolutionary one that embeds the ideas that cooperation and competition op...

I spoke this week at the Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference in Sydney about how to tackle corruption in councils and in ...

1 like = 1 criticism of mainstream economics — Unnerving Economics (@UnlearningEcon) October 17, 2017 Courtesy of a lengthy Twitter thre...

Corruption fighter and Game of Mates author Dr Cameron Murray has thrown his hat into the ring to challenge Deputy Premier Jackie Trad for t...

I have yet to hear reasoned arguments about why Bitcoin should be considered a currency. Nor have the perceived advantages over existin...