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Monday, November 22, 2021

Alice in housing economics wonderland

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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” ’The qu...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Opening remarks to housing inquiry

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A video of my testimony to the inquiry is here (from 11:00:00) My full written submission is here  and my follow-up response to questions r...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Public housing is way cheaper than rental subsidies

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A discussion about the best way to provide below-market-priced housing popped up on Twitter recently. Peter Tulip noted many of the limitati...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Housing supply… another inquiry

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Dwelling assets are being repriced globally, as expected by central banks who have sought to achieve this with their interest rate policies....
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Monday, August 16, 2021

Do medical school entrance tests constrain supply?

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The GAMSAT is an entrance test that all prospective students to medical schools in Australia must take. I want to use a hypothetical scenari...
Monday, August 9, 2021

COVID logic vs the public health army

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“There are two schools of thought… Science stands for healthy scepticism… asking for better evidence… Then you have a second school of thoug...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

An Australian homeownership prediction

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I have a good track record of making “mad” predictions about Australia’s housing market that turn out to be correct.  In May 2013 I wrote  t...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Saving us from COVID-19 will cost lives after the pandemic

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First published at AFR here . Missing from the debate about the human cost of COVID lockdowns is an understanding of how societies produce h...
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Monday, June 14, 2021

COVID, Q+A, tough questions and sense-checking

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Q+A is not real life. Nor is Twitter for that matter. In the days since my appearance I have received more than one hundred emails and mes...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Taxing rezoning windfalls (betterment)

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This is an excerpt from a new paper of mine available here .  What is the source of rezoning gains? The answer to this question relies on un...
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