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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of Rigged: How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians via their favourite podcast app. Chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. A physical copy or ebook can be bought here . Rigged was originally publis...

If you have an interest in land value taxes and Georgism, you might have come across the acronyms ATCOR - “All taxes come out of rents” - and EBCOR “Excess burdens come out of rents”. Tim Helm, Research Director at Prosper Australi a, helps unpack these concepts and how they can be useful for understanding the economy in the 21st century. —————— Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy Th...

We step through the wild claims in a marketing campaign by the new superannuation lobby group Super Member’s Council. Find those claims here . Can you believe that after all the fuss of super and getting people off the age pension, one of the big selling points used by the super lobby is that you can still get the age pension? Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hij...

It’s a classic economics joke. President Truman once complained about trained economists: “Whenever I ask their opinion, they say on the one hand, so-and-so; but on the other hand, so-and-so, On the one hand, — but on the other hand. I would like to meet an economist with one hand! “ In this episode, Jonathan pushes Cameron to explain why his recent interviews gave the impression that he thought t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. These are the final chapters. Thanks for listening, and thanks for your support. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Michael Matusik has been a property analyst for decades. Find out his views on where we are in the cycle, what types of housing has a promising future, and more. Follow Michael’s terrific Matusik Missive Substack here . ______ Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here . Please like, comment, share, and subscribe. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Musi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Ben is an economist at the Australian National University. He studies many of the big policy questions in Australia, from housing to childcare to welfare and more. We chat about the misunderstandings of our economic situation that are perpetuated by the media, and how reality is more boring and generally positive than portrayed. Find Ben on X/Twitter here . Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

How should we think about housing? As an asset, like a bond? If so, how would city planning affect its pricing? Aziz Sunderji writes the excellent Home Economics substack . Follow Aziz on Twitter here . _____ Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here . Please like, comment, share, and subscribe. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative C...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

A new report on Speculative Vacancies by Tim Helm, Research Director at Prosper Australia , is out now (full disclosure, I currently do consulting work for Prosper on other projects). Using water meter data for every residential dwelling since 2018, Tim looked at trends in long-term unoccupied (empty) homes on a suburb-by-suburb basis across Melbourne. The concept of a long-term empty home is diff...

This was a great conversation that covered some big-picture issues about how an incorrect view of money changes our macroeconomic analysis, and also the finer details of monetary operations. Find out more about the Modern Money Lab . And for those following closely, here is the document Steven refers to about the RBA buying Treasury bonds to maintain control of the interest rate. The relevant sect...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Fresh Economic Thinking exists to elevate the quality of economic discussion. This is why I write detailed articles about influential economic ideas—I want to help progress the discipline. Please consider a paid subscription to support these efforts. Like many well-trained economists, I took  Adam Smith’s argument  about productivity gains being caused by the division of labour at face value. It w...

If the macroeconomy experiences a radical disruption, is a Universal Basic Income (UBI) going to help? How different is that from existing welfare systems? And how likely is a rapid shock from a technology change like Artificial Intelligence (AI) compared to other shocks like we experience during COVID lockdowns? Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here . Ple...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

Just about every nation has a local debate about how it is uniquely bad at improving construction productivity. But how do economists use that word and can we really interpret what gets measured in a meaningful way? Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here . Please like, comment, share, and subscribe. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Cre...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

It is nearly the end of the financial year in Australia. A paid subscription to Fresh Economic Thinking could be a tax-deductible expense for you. Please consider supporting to get access to this and all articles, the audiobook of The Great Housing Hijack, the charts page, and more. A dominant line of thinking in policy-land is that allowing higher housing densities increases the rate at which new...

This week Konrad Michalski chats about his foray into the world of political satire— how does he as an outside observer decipher the many stories we tell as we fight over the gains from our economic system. Follow  Cameron  and  Jonathan  on X/Twitter. Buy The Great Housing Hijack here . Please like, comment, share, and subscribe. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Com...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fresheconomicthinking.com Paid Fresh Economic Thinking subscribers can enjoy the audiobook version of The Great Housing Hijack via their favourite podcast app. Two chapters will be released weekly over the coming months. Theme music: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music under Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0