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If there is one idea that defines economics, it is opportunity cost. Unfortunately, muddled thinking about this idea means that across the ...

Many people hold the view that rezoning land to allow higher density residential uses on each plot will accelerate the rate of city housing ...

TL;DR There is a major flaw in the idea that high prices stimulate more housing supply. It is that high price growth itself decreases the...

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...