Archive - Fresh Economic Thinking

May 2025

Explainer: Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth

A detailed look at a recent working paper that is making waves amongst housing economists

May 26 •

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FET #55: Daniel Hess on whether housing density destroys fertility

Does urban density and apartment living cause lower fertility?

May 19 •

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FET #54: Aussie political elections just work

Australia's elections run smoothly and efficiently. But are they perfect? We do a post-mortem on the process of political elections.

May 12 •

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Retirement Rort: The economic case against Australia’s superannuation orthodoxy

Everyone who studies the superannuation system closely learns its flaws. Here's why it is time to move on from "super is good, let's improve it" to…

May 5 •

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

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