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Leith van Onselen and I were commissioned by the Sustainable Australia Party’s Victorian branch to examine the causes and implications of po...

In traditional economic thinking, the interaction an independently determined supply and demand for rental housing set the market rental pri...

One of the great myths in economics is that there are substantial negative impacts from population ageing. But there is no economic basis fo...

Static thinking creates the mystery A famous 1999 article in the The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics was entitled Why don...

I was an illogical ideologue I recall many heated political and economic discussions with Paul Frijters when I started my PhD. In retrospe...

This is an expanded version of an article first published at The Conversation .  Most think-tanks and policy groups in Australia think tha...

People fuss over housing being expensive without ever really thinking about what their ideal world would be. My ideal world is one where...

With nationalistic policies back on the agenda across the world, we should not underestimate the power of our collective belief in the natio...

Is land an object that can be produced? The answer to this important question provides the foundation for properly analysing land and housin...

127th Annual Henry George Dinner Speech 1. To make health care affordable we broke this monopolistic market. We now spend over $100 bil...