Archive - Fresh Economic Thinking

More eyes on Auckland's upzoning experiment

Unpacking the famous Auckland story by looking at the size of its new dwellings

Sep 15 •

FET #41: Are the Georgist economic concepts of ATCOR and EBCOR useful in 2024?

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…

Sep 11 •

36:50

Ed Glaeser: Harvard's housing huckster

His absurd housing analysis makes you wonder if he knows anything about housing markets at all

Sep 8 •

FET #40: Wild things the superannuation lobby will say to protect their gravy train

Can you believe that super lobby argues that keeping the age pension is one of the benefits of the super system?

Sep 4 •

29:48

Have you noticed that we humans have a deep impulse to sacrifice for no reason?

Unfortunately, this sacrifice impulse intrudes on our economic debates

Sep 1 •

August 2024

FET #39: Is Cameron just another lazy two-faced economist?

How can that crazy guy say that the market is working and also that we need radical intervention in housing. Pick one!

Aug 29 •

25:48

The kooky housing supply filtering debate

People must relocate to fill the stock of homes. Filtering must happen. So what is the controversy about?

Aug 25 •

Why it makes economic sense to grow water-intensive crops in the desert

It's because of the huge variation in growing conditions

Aug 18 •

Room to build: The zoned capacity question

How much housing development capacity is enough, and how will we know?

Aug 11 •

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Audiobook: The Great Housing Hijack (Ch23 + Ch24 + Ch25)

Ch 23: Perfecting property + Ch 24: HouseMate + Ch 25: Future foresight

Aug 7 •

53:13

Which cities out-supplied upzoned Auckland?

If we trust the analysis, then London and Wellington are housing supply leaders

Aug 4 •

FET #38: Michael Matusik talks property cycles and the state of our debate

Michael Matusik has been a property analyst for decades.

Aug 1 •

38:29

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