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Weirdly, illegal drugs and prostitution are in European GDP figures
Did the statisticians err?
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Cameron Murray
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FET #22: Property problems with buyers agent Pete Wargent
Listen now (37 mins) | What is a property buyer’s agent? How can trading housing be more efficient? And how we can boost the regions to take population…
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Can Fresh Economic Thinking become a new science institution?
My thoughts on how trust changes where science happens
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Landlords selling = first home owners buying
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The 'sunk cost' trickery that makes renewables seem cheaper than they are
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Explainer: Building and planning approvals
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The great housing supply contradiction
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Does Victoria's rollicking 1880s land boom have lessons for today?
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FET #21: Aidan Morrison explains the problematic analysis behind the cheap renewables story
Listen now (36 mins) | You might have heard that renewables are the cheapest new electricity generation technology. But is this claim true? Physicist…
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Cameron Murray
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Gough Whitlam's 1958 hot take on housing
How we discussed housing supply and affordability six decades ago compared to today
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Cameron Murray
FET #20: Tim Helm on why housing supply starts when speculation ends
Listen now (38 mins) | And why housing prices aren't just the sum of costs
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Cameron Murray
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Taxes are taking half my income...
and half my brain cells too
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Cameron Murray
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FET #19: Duty of care to future generations
Listen now (31 mins) | What are the legal and economic issues that arise when trying to enforce a duty of care to future generations? Cameron and…
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Cameron Murray
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How I learned to stop worrying and love high land values
A speech by Emily Sims of Prosper Australia to the Planning Institute of Australia
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Cameron Murray
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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a chameleon
The way inflation is measured changes to suit our economic environment
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Cameron Murray
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