Tag Archives: costbenefitanalysis

Picking winners – industry policy podcast chat with Craig Lawrence

Posted on June 5, 2020 by

With the Queensland Government willing to invest $200 million in Virgin Australia to keep its HQ in Brisbane, I thought it would be timely to record a podcast interview on investment attraction and industry policy more broadly. On Tuesday, I … Continue reading →

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Radical Uncertainty with Prof. John Kay CBE

Posted on April 30, 2020 by

Radical Uncertainty: Decision making for an unknowable future is a timely new book from eminent British economists Professor John Kay and former Bank of England Governor Lord Mervyn King. I recently interviewed Professor Kay about the book and our conversation … Continue reading →

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Coronavirus policy responses with Joe Branigan – latest Economics Explained episode

Posted on April 2, 2020 by

Last night I recorded an Economics Explained podcast interview with my good friend and former Treasury colleague Joe Branigan of Tulipwood Economics on the economic impact of coronavirus and the economic cost of responding to it. Use these timestamps to … Continue reading →

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City Infrastructure with Craig Lawrence – Economics Explained ep.26

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

At this stage, the official line is that Queensland’s local government elections will still go ahead on Saturday 28 March despite the coronavirus threat, although the Queensland Electoral Commissioner has told ABC Radio “Things could change…” (see this ABC News … Continue reading →

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Podcast highlights – Quiggin on climate change, Gruen on digital public goods, and others

Posted on December 27, 2019 by

My latest Economics Explained episode presents highlights from the podcast in 2019, including UQ’s John Quiggin on climate change, Lateral Economics’s Nicholas Gruen on digital public goods, and RMIT’s Leonora Risse (currently a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School) on … Continue reading →

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Sunstein’s Cost-Benefit Revolution is recommended reading

Posted on October 28, 2019 by

While economists often lament that governments don’t use cost-benefit analysis enough, Harvard Law Professor and former US regulatory czar Cass Sunstein offers a much more optimistic perspective in his excellent 2018 book The Cost-Benefit Revolution, which I’ve only just got … Continue reading →

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Economics of infrastructure interview with Craig Lawrence of Lytton Advisory

Posted on September 16, 2019 by

I spend much of my spare time listening to podcasts, including EconTalk, Planet Money, and the Tim Ferriss Show among others, and I’ve often thought it’s about time I start my own podcast. Over the last month or so, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Joe Branigan’s award winning paper on the correct use of CBA and economic impact analysis

Posted on December 12, 2018 by

Congratulations to my old friend and fellow Queensland economist Joe Branigan of SMART Infrastructure Facility for his award-winning paper on assessing the value of regional public infrastructure (see photo below). In his paper, published in the Australasian Journal of Regional … Continue reading →

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Queensland Parliament Question Time featuring my Cross River Rail post

Posted on May 11, 2017 by

Thanks to local citizen journalist David Marler, @Qldaah, for his tweet yesterday afternoon which alerted me to the Question Time debate on Cross River Rail in the Queensland Parliament, in which my post from yesterday morning was quoted a few … Continue reading →

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Weekly highlights: BDO Economic & Political Update and ESA Qld-Nine Squared CBA seminar

Posted on September 9, 2016 by

It was a fantastic week to be an economist in Brisbane, with two excellent events, the BDO Economic & Political Update on Tuesday morning at BCEC and the ESA Qld-Nine Squared seminar on Cost-benefit analysis in contemporary project evaluation at … Continue reading →

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