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A common objective of town planning schemes is the densification of existing suburbs to create “ missing middle ” density. This is usually...

Housing supply is one of the most misunderstood processes in economics. The reason for this is that the core standard theory of economics is...

Superannuation It seems that when people want to withdraw their money from super , the money is not there, and it requires asset sel...

Cameron Murray Henry Halloran Trust, The University of Sydney 20 March 2020 Download proposal as a PDF We propose that State governm...

During 2009 farmers were paid $61million per month in drought assistance as part of Exceptional Circumstances Subsidies. But the public got ...

People are often confused about retirement income systems. Understandably so. Most economists , and organisations such as the IMF , OECD , n...

One pattern that stands out in the property market is that although homes prices are at all-time highs, so too is the proportion of vacant d...

Bernie Sanders has smashed the Overton window. Rent control is going global. Unfortunately, this means that the economics 101 brigade has ...

When the Australia government introduced a cash grant for first home buyers, the aggregate effect was to increase home prices by roughly the...

When I teach macroeconomics, I use a dog and bone analogy to demonstrate that the macro-economy is not equivalent to just “adding up” the mi...