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When we don’t factor in the environment in our economic decision making, we aren’t getting an acurate picture of what’s happening. Australia needs to adopt more environmental economics.
By focusing on forecasting issues, economists remain disengaged with real-world problems.
The World Economic Forum draws a straight line from social injustice to many of the risks facing the world in 2017.
Searching for a sensitive route to the practical aftermath of tragedy.
M-PESA was launched nearly a decade ago in Kenya. New evidence suggests that the mobile money banking system has helped reduced poverty levels, particularly in households headed by women.
A handful of our business economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
The debate about different generations’ economic status misses the inequality within generations, especially younger Australians.
Next year GDP will grow at the second-slowest rate in 16 years, according to MYEFO. This has big implications for unemployment and the deficit.
Economist Ross Guest unpacks some of the key numbers in the government’s mid year budget update, with seven charts.
While MYEFO discussion focuses on the budget deficit, experts say it also serves as a stark reminder of the need for bigger policy ideas in Canberra.
A lot has changed in the global economy since the Federal Budget 2016.
Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling will be recognised for his little-known comments that sparked behavioural economics.
The “no” result from Italy’s referendum is likely to brew political and economic uncertainty for some time yet.
In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
Problems occur when a country falls in love with gold, and silver might be about to get a boost from proposed solutions.
The government says its changes to foreign investment will increase housing supply and make it more affordable, but that’s relying on narrow and possibly incorrect assumptions about investors.
The community needs affordable housing and that requires meaningful targets for new developments. The only ones who will lose out are landholders who make windfall profits from rezoning.
Recently I got told this joke. Two economists are having lunch. One of them has to make a decision about changing jobs, moving cities, disrupting his family and so on. What should he do, he asks the other…
New research finds higher property prices are associated with higher household income and spending inequality.
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