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Friday Fodder (6/24)
Are you being underpaid, how should we best mitigate carbon emissions (and how two prominent government advisors got it so wrong), why we shouldn't bail out the nickel industry, and what's the most important stock on Earth?
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Friday Fodder (5/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Stepped on by stamp duty Move over income tax, because the always-interesting folks at the e61 Institute released a note
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Friday Fodder (4/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Confusing cause with effect Former chair of the ACCC, Allan Fels, released his much anticipated report into "price gouging
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Friday Fodder (3/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Boeing's cycle of misery You may have seen or read about the issues Boeing's commercial aircraft
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Monday Musings (1/24)
As a replacement for last Friday's missing Fodder courtesy of the long weekend, here are a few short takes for you to muse over to start your week, from last week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. An easy-sounding fix for
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Friday Fodder (2/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. Protecting us from ourselves I was scrolling through the AFR last Sunday, as one does, and noticed the following headline:
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Friday Fodder (1/24)
Here are a few short takes for you to chew over on the weekend, from the week's happenings that probably didn't need a full post. 1. A lot happens at sea that we don't know about A new study in Nature used satellite mapping
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Introducing Aussienomics
First of all, hello and welcome! I suppose I had better start with a quick summary of what Aussienomics is, although most of that is in the name: it's a newsletter about economics with a specific focus on Australia. It is written by me, Justin Pyvis, an economist