Archive - Fresh Economic Thinking

April 2025

Rent, Rage, Repeat: Housing’s predictable election comeback

Our political debates about housing repeat as regularly as the property cycle

Apr 28 •

Devaluating Everything. Universities

How technology, feminisation, and immigration, are devaluing universities

Apr 21 •

Construction costs DO NOT increase housing asset prices, they SHAPE the density and quality of the pool of feasible homes (Part II)

Part II of a series on why we don't know if housing construction productivity is rising or falling, and even if productivity was falling, why that won't…

Apr 14 •

FET #53: How foreign aid fails and why scrapping USAID could empower development

How to understand the aid industry from an insider

Apr 7 •

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March 2025

The farmland fallacy: Why residential land will not be priced at agricultural value without planning regulations

And why this strange idea pervades housing economics

Mar 31 •

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FET #52: Can we save 300 lives and $20 billion a year using basic economics to reduce road fatalities?

I speak with economist Richard Tooth about getting better incentives on our roads to reduce risk and save lives

Mar 24 •

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We DON'T KNOW if housing construction productivity is RISING or FALLING (Part I)

What we got from Australia's Productivity Commission recently were silly methods without sound economic logic

Mar 17 •

FET #51: Paul Frijters on the CORONA PANIC DEBACLE after FIVE years

What we knew then, what we know now, and how history will be written

Mar 10 •

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How Australia's electricity market got POLITICAL and cost us BILLIONS

Why didn't our experts get the same answers as those abroad on the cheapest way to generate and distribute electricity?

Mar 3 •

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February 2025

Australian Immigration: Rule by Bureaucrat

The technocrats lost control over Australia's borders

Feb 24 •

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