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Economic lessons from a great Australian ritual of kerbside collection
I look at my city's tradition through an economic lens
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Cameron Murray
13
September 2023
Student accommodation houses over 100,000 people but isn't included in dwelling counts
Counting dwellings is harder than you think
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Cameron Murray
2
Removing stamp duty is now claimed to miraculously boost homeownership
A new paper finds that removing stamp duty could boost homeownership, ignoring the New Zealand experience where the opposite occurred.
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Cameron Murray
11
The macroeconomics of childcare policy
Childcare is using your wage to pay someone else's wage to supervise your child – closing this macroeconomic loop helps us think more clearly about…
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Cameron Murray
19
Stanley Jevons reckons cheap renewables won't make oil and coal redundant. I believe him
Economic lessons from the Stone Age and a 19th century paradox that the modern environmental movement needs to accept
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Cameron Murray
8
August 2023
The Auckland upzoning myth: Response to comments
We identified three major flaws in a landmark paper about the construction effects of upzoning. No-one disagreed with these flaws. Now we respond to…
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Cameron Murray
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Tim Helm
7
You get a rental inquiry. And you get a rental inquiry. We all get a rental inquiry!
Will a thousand rental inquiries make homes cheap? Probably not.
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Cameron Murray
8
Crampton debates Crampton on the economic theory of landbanking and housing supply
Is standard economic theory a forest hiding amongst the trees?
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Cameron Murray
24
CFMEU is picking political fights with a weird tax dressed up as a housing policy
Why a tax policy, not a housing policy? Why tax super-profits? And why $20 billion per year?
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Cameron Murray
3
July 2023
What's my economic identity?
Some label me a communist or a socialist. Others call me a conservative or a libertarian. It turns out, you don't have to pick an economic or political…
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Cameron Murray
14
The 'sunk cost' trickery that makes renewables seem cheaper than they are
CSIRO's GenCost report needs some careful scrutiny
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Aidan Morrison
6
Landlords selling = first home owners buying
More homeownership means landlords selling, yet everyone pretends otherwise
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Cameron Murray
33
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