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- Opening remarks to Qld Parliamentary Inquiry on economic response to COVID-19
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- Heat map of Brisbane metro property prices – big opportunities in the Western corridor?
- Top twenty largest cities and towns in Queensland by population
- Unfreezing discount rates with Marion Terrill from Grattan - latest podcast episode
- My Weekend Australian comments on Qld Future Fund
- True Qld unemployment rate around 12%
- Where is residential development occurring in the Brisbane metro area?
- Qld public service freeze - my Courier-Mail comments
- Great map from OESR showing CSG wells in Surat Basin
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Tag Archives: uq
Qld single-use plastics ban plan revives memory of UQ Union’s real crockery & cutlery experiment in mid-nineties
Economists are always alert to the potential for adverse unintended consequences of well-meaning policies, so the Queensland Government grabbed my attention recently when it announced it is considering a single-use plastics ban. ABC News has reported: Single-use plastics could be … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Uncategorized
Tagged plastic, qld, queensland, singleuseplastic, uq, uqunion
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The 7 habits of highly effective economists – Part 1: Habits 1 to 3 for private victory
I’ve recently become a huge fan of Tim Ferriss’s extraordinary podcast The Tim Ferriss Show. One of the questions Tim regularly asks his super-successful guests is: What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 7habits, deepwork, dsge, effectiveness, email, facebook, friedman, goldstandard, internet, islm, keynes, krugman, lse, monetarism, proactivity, productivity, r, timemanagement, uq
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Fair Share is overly pessimistic and interventionist, but still worth reading
Last Wednesday night I was fortunate to attend the Fair Share book launch at Brisbane’s historic Customs House. Unlike many book launches it was widely reported (e.g. this SMH article), as the book was launched by former Prime Minister Paul … Continue reading
Posted in Labour market, Macroeconomy, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, australianeconomy, brisbane, fairshare, inequality, infrastructure, uq
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Review of South Brisbane candidate Cameron Murray’s Game of Mates in CIS Policy magazine
Well known UQ economist Cameron Murray yesterday announced his candidacy for the Queensland State seat of South Brisbane, currently held by our formidable Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, who was already under threat from a strong challenge by the Greens’ Amy … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cis, corruption, gameofmates, qld, queensland, southbrisbane, uq
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AGL Chief Economist to address ESA Qld on National Electricity Market
As you are no doubt aware, one of the big economic challenges facing Australia at the moment is the high cost of energy. An important aspect of the debate around the cost of energy is the future of the National … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Uncategorized
Tagged agl, csg, electricity, energy, gas, lng, mcculloughs, nationalelectricitymarket, nem, renewableenergy, uq
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UQ student’s Treasury prize winning essay highlights benefits of competition & free trade
The Australian Treasury yesterday announced the winner of its inaugural essay competition, and the award went to University of Queensland Economics student Elizabeth Baldwin, who incidentally also won the RBA/Economic Society of Australia essay prize last year. The essay question … Continue reading
Posted in Productivity, Trade, Uncategorized
Tagged diffusion, innovation, knowledge, productivity, r&d, rba, technology, trade, treasury, uq, uqeconomics
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BWF session considers fake news & economic viability of quality journalism
Yesterday afternoon, Saturday 9 September, I attended a Brisbane Writers Festival panel discussion “The Media in Dangerous Times” at the State Library of Queensland. The topic was “how news organisations are responding to the threat of Fake News and the … Continue reading
Posted in Brisbane, Uncategorized
Tagged australian, brisbane, bwf, clickbait, couriermail, curation, economists, facebook, fakenews, ft, google, griffith, guardian, journalism, Media, newscorp, nytimes, uq
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Quiggin calls for economically sensible road charges in outstanding Colin Clark Lecture
UQ’s Professor John Quiggin was only called upon Wednesday to fill in for an ill Richard Holden at the annual Colin Clark Lecture at Brisbane’s old Customs House yesterday morning, but nonetheless he managed to deliver an outstanding presentation titled: … Continue reading
Posted in Transport, Uncategorized
Tagged brisbane, congestion, congestioncharging, congestionpricing, customshouse, externality, roadpricing, roads, uq, uqeconomics
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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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Better Living through Economics – upcoming presentation at UQ
Economists have made immense contributions to people’s wellbeing over the last fifty years. An Australian example that comes to mind is the instrumental role economists played in advocating for and designing microeconomic reforms, including tariff reductions, privatisations and the deregulation … Continue reading
Posted in Macroeconomy, Trade, Uncategorized
Tagged australia, economics, esaqld, griffith, microeconomicreform, qut, rba, treasury, uq, wellbeing
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