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By Guest Poster on August 17, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged Coalition, economic policy, Economics, economists, Federal Election 2010, fiscal stimulus, GFC, Joseph Stiglitz, Thinking Points |
By Kim on August 16, 2010
John Quiggin has published an open letter from 50 academic economists arguing that the stimulus package prevented Australia from going into recession:
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged ALP, Economics, economists, Federal Election 2010, GFC, John Quiggin, Joseph Stiglitz, Labor, recession, stimulus |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 27, 2009
Anyone who’s worked in a large public sector organisation will know how “efficiency dividends” work. Or don’t work. Or work in unintended ways – by destroying the capacity to do what your actual main purpose is. There’s a bit of [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Markets | Tagged ABS, ALP, consumer spending, consumption, data, deflation, economic policy, Economics, economists, fiscal spending, Gerry Harvey, growth, Harvey Norman, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, managerialism, Peter Costello, Peter Martin, recession, Rudd govermnent, stimulus, Treasury |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment, Industrial Relations, Markets, Middle East, Policy, Sociology | Tagged economic management, economic policy, economists, eight economists, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Gough Whitlam, Industrial Relations, infrastructure bank, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Nicholas Gruen, open letter, policy process, Politics, public policy, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 3, 2008
It’s hard to know whether to blame the pollies or the press gallery more for the sorry standard of political and economic debate in this country. Did that golden age Paul Kelly used to talk about when Paul Keating had [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Government, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, behavioural economics, cats claws, collective action, dialectic, economic management, economic sociology, economists, fiscal policy, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, interest rates, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberals, LIBOR, lived economy, Malcolm Turnbull, non-farm growth, Paul Krugman, political economy, reserve bank, Rudd government, shared realities, social construction, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unemployment, us economy |
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