Sitemap - 2026 - Fresh Economic Thinking

FET #81: Debunking all the arguments in favour of Australia’s superannuation system

Are Brisbane's character protections killing housing affordability?

FET #80: Why are the experts now speaking up about Artificial Intelligence (AI) risks?

Ignore all the ways housing is supplied and you will always find a shortage

FET #79: Welfare for the well-off costs Australians over $20 billion a year! Henry Williams explains how to fix it

Consulting and Speaking

Explainer: How the Visa System Affects Net Overseas Migration (NOM)

Sydney and Melbourne workshops: Land and Housing Economics for Professionals

What is landbanking and why does it happen?

The ageing "crisis" has not and will not happen

Housing supply is not new housing production

Aziz Sunderji makes housing Great Again

Home prices don't follow costs. Costs follow prices.

Why change-of-use feasibility is not the same as commercial feasibility

FET #78: Reddit finance discovers superannuation's failures, plus Reddit responses and a note on One Nation

Productivity Commission given two months to solve housing supply, again.

The Marginal Cost Controversy and its missing solution

FET #77: What's the modern monetary theory (MMT) view on inflation and the interest burden of public debt?

Where do I send the guy with the gun? That's the question to ask to help think clearly about taxes and cut through the nonsense

FET #76: Moses Sternstein on the housing shortage myth, demographics, and debt

Pricing property rights. Or, how to do sensible value capture rather than giving away public property for free

FET #75: Inheritance taxes seem fair, but policing them seems unfair. Why?

Why do these housing charts look like a banana?

Billionaire Industrial Policy

Three housing charts that will make you smarter

How to get a decent public return from Australia's gas resources—A 25% export tax? Or something else?

FET #74: How to think about scenarios in the Iran as an economist and scientist, with Paul Frijters

The Efficient Property Markets Hypothesis: Why Feasible Zoned Housing Capacity Is an Illusion

FET #73: Steve Keen on why economists are often blind to the macro cycle (plus housing and more)

So, about that "housing shortage"...

FET #72: Jim Penman on zoning, politics and fertility

Why Your Supply Elasticity Number Is Probably Wrong

FET #71: Crémieux on how bad science and fraud lead to bad policy

What if Ronald Coase met Henry George? Coase says create property rights. George says tax them.

FET #70: Tim Sneesby is a real life town planner. Why is he making housing so unaffordable?

What an economics experiment taught me about corruption and human nature

FET #69: David Maywald explains how the war on masculinity affects health, education, and families

Is 2026 the peak of Australia's housing cycle? Or is there not really one cycle at all?

FET #68: Mark Changizi on the Hidden Logic Behind Emotion, Language, and Social Order

How evolution opens the black box of market competition

Supply starts when speculation ends: Searching for a theory of housing production