Some of the scenarios are optimistic. but the one I think is most likely isn’t. It’s a return to the stagnant world we had before COVID.
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Decarbonisation is not impossible, but it will be difficult to achieve through capitalism.
Everyone is talking about how to alleviate energy prices this winter, but no one acknowledges that the average household has been getting poorer for more than a decade.
The US economy is cooling, yet inflation remains elevated, a combo that suggests stagflation might be right around the corner.
To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
For once, centre-left economists are divided.
Janet Yellen is the perfect choice to tackle the worst economic crisis in a century, and the problems that lie beyond.
The government has done a good job so far, but it will have to direct future support to the Australians most likely to spend.
Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship has been on a worryingly downward trend since the 1980s – here’s why.
More than good management and more than good luck, we’ve been blessed by delightfully fortunate timing.
The progress we were making has been slowed or reversed, at exactly the wrong time.
We’ve two options of keeping ourselves out of recession, neither of them easy. The government will have to abandon its determination to get the budget into surplus.
No longer do the world economic figures contradict the former US Treasury Secretary’s theory.
Australia needs to change its national accounting system to be more like the private sector.
Australia has had 24 years of consistent growth. Is it all about to come to a crashing end?
The major Australian banks have recently cut fixed mortgage rates below 5%. They have done so without any prompting from the Reserve Bank of Australia, which may actually start raising the policy rate…
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Michael Keating is a Friend of The Conversation.
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