Here are some reblogs of some of Tim Harding’s favourite recent posts by other writers. (Reblogging does not necessarily entail endorsement of the views expressed).
2018
- Market v government? In fact, hybrid policy is the best fit for the 21st century
- How superannuation discriminates against middle income earners
- Company boards are stacked with friends of friends so how can we expect change?
- Melbourne Airport is going to be as busy as Heathrow, so why the argument about one train line?
- The Nationals should support carbon farming, not coal
- You’re paying too much for electricity, but here’s what the states can do about it
- ‘Trade wars are good’? 3 past conflicts tell a very different story
- Blaming immigrants for unemployment, lower wages and high house prices is too simplistic
- Three reasons not to worry about the stock market ‘crash’
- A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills
2017
- Broad mandate for financial services royal commission takes the heat off banks
- City-wide trial shows how road use charges can reduce traffic jams
- Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
- Three areas to reform federal-state financial relations
- Are markets efficient? Fama debates Thaler
- Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
- Economics of Signaling
- Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports
- Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
- What’s the economic value of the Great Barrier Reef? It’s priceless
- Economists split over Turnbull’s plan to reserve gas for Australian customers
- What’s critical about critical infrastructure?
- Comparing Australia’s electricity charges to other countries shows why competition isn’t working
- The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
- Explainer: trickle-down economics
- Australia’s electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up
- Why bad housing design pumps up power prices for everyone
2016
- Universal basic income: the dangerous idea of 2016
- Coles wants $1 maximum bets for pokies – so why won’t the pokie-makers play ball?
- FactCheck: Are Australians paying twice as much for electricity as Americans?
- To pay solar households fairly, we need to understand the true value of solar
- These are the characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
- Do we thank science for all our prosperity?
- Explainer: what is contract theory and why it deserved a Nobel Prize
- Greyhound racing ban: NSW is looking at the industry from the dogs’ point of view
- What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing
- Brexit stage right: what Britain’s decision to leave the EU means for Australia
- How a Brexit could impact on Australia
- Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
- Why do people buy water?
- How might Big Tobacco react to a rise in cigarette excise?
- Nudges, not legislation will drive people to save more for retirement
- Big win for small business in government embrace of competition ‘effects test’
- Melbourne’s desalination plant is just one part of drought-proofing water supply
- Apes make irrational economic decisions – that includes you
- Collaboration: Too much of a good thing?
- Sacred cow no more: what proposed changes to negative gearing really mean
- Advantage gambling, but corruption risk surely isn’t worth it for tennis
2015
- Movie pirates break records for stolen previews of latest Hollywood movies
- Australia’s economy is slowing: what you need to know
- Economic Inequality Is Not Immoral
- Economic theories that have changed us: game theory
- If copyright’s a dud, what business models do work for creatives?
- Economic theories that have changed us: asymmetric information
- When ‘hand crafted’ is really just crafty marketing
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