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Tag Archives: economics
Working from home during & after the pandemic with Alison Pennington – podcast interview
Earlier this week I interviewed Alison Pennington, Senior Economist at the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, about the opportunities and risks of working from home during this time of COVID-19. Alison has been getting a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Uncategorized
Tagged agency, coronavirus, covid-19, economics, gigeconomy, mentalhealth, newnormal, productivity, psychology, socialisolation, surveillance, upwork, wellbeing, whs, workingfromhome
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City Infrastructure with Craig Lawrence – Economics Explained ep.26
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
Posted in Infrastructure, Uncategorized
Tagged activetransport, bridges, brisbane, capex, cba, costbenefitanalysis, crossriverrail, discountrate, economics, externalities, infrastructure, kangaroopoint, netbenefits, netpresentvalue, npv, opex, parks, traveltimesavings, tunnels, widereconomicbenefits
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John Quiggin’s Economics in Two Lessons – podcast interview
Earlier this week, I was fortunate to interview Professor John Quiggin regarding his book Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly. You can listen to the interview via Simplecast and major podcast … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blackswans, climatechange, coasetheorem, economics, innovation, opportunitycost, ubi, universalbasicincome
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Quiggin’s Economics in Two Lessons should be on ECON101 reading lists for decades to come
John Quiggin, the UQ Vice Chancellor’s Senior Fellow in Economics, has a new book out, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work so Well, and Why They Can Fail so Badly, which I can highly recommend. I’ve enjoyed dipping in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bitcoin, clapton, dylan, economics, freemarket, marketfailure, markets, privatisation, quiggin
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Pro Bono Econos UQ reading list
Last Friday, I was a panelist at a Pro Bono Econos UQ event on consulting. In my remarks, I mentioned a bunch of resources I thought would be helpful for students, and subsequently several of the students who attended have … Continue reading
Recommended reading: This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Last month, at the ESA-Griffith-QUT-UQ Economics Summer School held at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Griffith University Senior Lecturer Andreas Chai gave a fascinating presentation on his research on consumption patterns. Here are the important points from Andreas’s report for UNIDO on … Continue reading
Joe Branigan’s award winning paper on the correct use of CBA and economic impact analysis
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ajrs, anzrsai, cba, costbenefitanalysis, economicimpactanalysis, economics, eia
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Economists and the media
This Thursday lunchtime, I’ll be chairing an ESA (Qld) seminar on economists and the media, featuring former ABC finance reporter Rebecca Archer, Director of Connect Media Training, and Griffith Economics Professor Fabrizio Carmignani, a frequent media commentator and contributor to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged economics, economists, esaqld, finance, journalists, Media
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LSE’s Stephen Machin to deliver public policy evaluation Winter school at O’Reilly’s, Gold Coast
Economists will often caution that correlation does not necessarily imply causation, or that causation may not run the way you expect. So, for example, the negative correlation between educational attainment and crime, that more educated people are less likely to … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Education, Labour market, Uncategorized
Tagged crime, economics, education, esaqld, goldcoast, griffith, lse, oreillys, publicpolicy, quasiexperiments, qut, uq
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Zombie electricity utilities – upcoming presentation by Professor Manuel Pinho to ESA Qld
The latest issue of The Economist features an excellent article (Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems) describing the challenges of integrating renewable energy into electricity systems. It is a timely article, given there is an extensive debate in … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Uncategorized
Tagged economics, electricity, energy, esaqld, portugal, powerwall, renewableenergy, renewables, solarpv
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