Economists have argued for decades about the best treatment for the UK’s persistent economic malaise.
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A ‘new’ country wouldn’t have many more people or a much higher standard of living – but it would have a lot more natural resources.
Degrowthers advocate cutting investment as a way to reduce use of precious resources, which is exactly what the UK government has been doing for the last 40 years.
A levy on electronic transactions in Ghana makes sense if the government gets the architecture for it right
Without academic freedom and rule of law it’s hard to see how China’s economy can continue to grow so fast.
To drive living standards upward we need new technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The notion of a trade-off between health measures and the economy is not supported by data from 45 countries.
The treasurer says 2018 was a year of two halves, but there were signs of a downturn well before mid year.
It’s important to interrogate the key factors that pushed countries from Third World to First World status in the 20th century. Asia’s experiences hold many lessons for Africa.
Was Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen right to say that the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in our living standards since records began?
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor in Economics, University College Cork
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer at Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Ghana
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Emeritus professor, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Lecturer in Economics, University of the Witwatersrand