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By Kim on August 18, 2011
We learned last week that Joe Hockey plans to cut $70 billion from government spending (as he has to do to fund Tony Abbott’s Direct Action and parental leave policies, and to make up for all sorts of foregone revenue [...]
Posted in Economics, Featured, Policy, Politics | Tagged Australia, Capitalism, debt, deficit, Economics, fiscal policy, GDP, GNI, gross national income, investment, Joe Hockey, Julia Gillard, Keynes, Philip Pilkington, profit, resources boom, resources super profits tax, social democracy |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 20, 2011
The tortuous negotiations over the US sovereign debt ceiling probably feature in our minds as a threat to our economic well being. Or for American politics junkies, the maneouvring could be uppermost. It’s worth putting the negotiations in a different perspective.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Imperialism, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, debt ceiling, empire, fiscal policy, ideology, Jodi Dean, John Boehner, Michael Perelman, Politics, Roman empire, Schumpeter, us congress |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 19, 2010
Today, Joe Hockey is outlining concrete and costed savings at the National Press Club. Or so we were led to believe, in a Budget reply speech from his leader which Peter Martin characterises as a ‘dog ate my homework’ address. [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged budget 2010, budget reply, costings, economic management, fiscal policy, Joe Hockey, NPC, Peter Martin, Q&A, Qanda, rspt, savings, small business tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 13, 2010
Tony Abbott really squibbed his moment in the spotlight tonight. According to the government, he needed to identify at least $15 billion in spending cuts to fund the promises he’s already made. According to just about everyone, he needed to [...]
Posted in Economics, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics | Tagged budget 2010, budget reply, debt, deficit, economic management, Federal Election 2010, fiscal policy, howard government, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Rudd government, Tony Abbott, Treasury |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 1, 2010
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that the first of Tony Abbott’s ‘headland speeches’ was on economic policy and was delivered the day after Newspoll showed the Coalition falling behind Labor on economic management, I don’t know. But, given that [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Politics | Tagged asian currency crisis, budget, Coalition, cuts, economic management, economic policy, Economics, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, headland speeches, Henry Tax review, Joe Hockey, John Howard, Keynes, Lateline, levies, Liberal Party, opposition, parental leave, Peter Costello, spending, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott, Tony Jones |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 15, 2009
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Posted in Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, campaign launch, Crikey blog, fiscal policy, GFC, John Wanna, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, leaders debate, leadership, LNP, Pineapple Party Time, political communication, political science, public management, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009 |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 12, 2009
John Quiggin wrote an interesting op/ed in the Fin Review today, which I imagine will eventually surface on his blog. Quiggin picked up on recent remarks by Lindsay Tanner about discipline in the budget process. “Efficiency dividends” are much in [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Policy | Tagged bradley review, budget, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, higher education, ideology, John Quiggin, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Policy, spending, tax cuts, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2009
A lot of commentary in the US has focused on both the politics of Barack Obama’s stimulus package and on the TARP II bailout announced by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last week. In developments which somewhat parallel the Australian debate [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged actor network theory, barack obama, cultural economics, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, epistemology, finance, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Friedmanites, global financial crisis, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Malcolm Turnbull, Milton Friedman, Republicans, Senate, social cartography, Sociology, Tim Geithner |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2009
Anyone actually wanting to find out what the result of the much vaunted Senate scrutiny of the Rudd government’s fiscal stimulus legislation can now do so by reading the Senate Committee report. Peter Martin has more. Speaking of Peter Martin, [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged economic policy, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, legislation, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, stimulus package, 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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