If we do pay our kids for their chores, do we risk creating kids who care more about money than doing good deeds for their own sake?
- Professor, School of Economics, UNSW
Cost-of-living measures are the key feature of this pre-election budget. But does it shore up our economy at a time of global risks? We asked 5 experts.
We’ve prevented many deaths, many of them at the cost of other deaths. The accounting ought to be made clear.
There are things we can do, but the Economic Society’s poll finds that not all of them are part of the traditional economists’ toolkit.
Analysis suggests import restrictions on bananas in Australia are a classic rent‐seeking policy, leaving Australians to subsidise each grower by more than $250,000 a year.
The basic idea of trickle-down economics is that giving economic help to companies or people at the top of society should generate benefits for those in layers further down.
The present Australian social security and welfare system can be viewed as a UBI scheme with exceptions for people who don’t need it.
A handful of our business economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
A case involving the suppression of academic research into racism - by a university - raises troubling questions.
Should publicly funded institutes such as universities be allowed to make political donations?
Our policy-makers know perfectly well how to reduce inequality and tackle political favouritism. The question is, will this federal budget even try?
The recent furore about academic standards in Australian higher education – including Monday’s damning Four Corners expose – has the potential to bring not only desperately needed attention, but actual change, to the sector.
If all researchers were required to serve time on an ethics committee, not only would the system look entirely different, human research subjects might get greater protection.
It would seem odd that the guesses of a random collection of people inform economic policy. But there’s more to consumer sentiment than that.
When controversial research is questioned, it’s worth asking if it’s for the right reasons.
I will never forget the late summer day on which Johnny Smith (not his real name) came to my office at UNSW full of excitement about his incipient undergraduate career. “I want to work as an investment…
“The Economics of Just About Everything” is the latest contribution by Andrew Leigh MP, ex-ANU economics professor, to the bookshelf of the intellectually curious Australian. The book is a long-overdue…
Economists understand greed very well; after all, the urge to get rich is our discipline’s main explanation for human actions. Economists further recognise that greed can be good. When our greedy urges…
Objective analysis of good microdata on students can yield results that are highly relevant to educational policy. This should come as no surprise, since it is the case in most other disciplines. To learn…
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