Archive - Fresh Economic Thinking

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This time the contradictory stories about rent control and housing supply are in Minnesota

Jul 24, 2022

UQPPES Statecraft Autumn Lecture, 16 March 2022

Mar 16, 2022

Where I straighten out some strangely common confusions in housing supply debates.

Feb 26

Mar 15

We all compare ourselves to others. I share my own family's spending patterns and compare them to the ABS household expenditure survey.

Mar 26

The facts are clear. Big Australia economics is mostly nonsense.

Jan 9

Part 1: If our theory of competition relies on the incentives of owners, how do we handle broad structures of cross-ownership?

Dec 11, 2022

Looking at the spending side of the household ledger, not just the income side, changes how we analyse the issue

Mar 12

We hear about the struggles of age pensioners and retirement. What about the struggles of everyone else? How do they really compare?

Jun 5, 2022

Even writers at the New York Times are noticing that property developers won't flood the market to bring down prices.

Aug 28, 2022

For decades private renters in many countries have spent roughly the same share of income on housing.

Oct 2, 2022

New data from a Freedom of Information request show that 2,622 have lodged claims in Australia's compensation scheme for harm due to the COVID vaccine…

Sep 11, 2022

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