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Why developers land bank
Land banking is a common practice adopted by developers, whereby they accumulate land for development well before the date at which they intend to sub-divide and build new housing.
Leith van Onselen
12 years ago
29
Skills shortage myths
The shrill voice of commentators warning of Australia’s apparent skills shortage is deafening.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
32
What makes us WEIRD people?
The Ultimatum Game works like this: You are given $100 and asked to share it with someone else.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
8
Economics of bike lanes
As an economist and keen utility cyclist (sorry, no lycra here) I have a close eye on the economic arguments surrounding urban transport investment. The question I often ponder is whether investment in a cycling infrastructure network (on or off road) in Australian cities is justifiable on purely economic grounds.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
31
The Coroner’s dodgy statistics
There are few journalists with enough knowledge of statistics to check the facts of those making wild claims.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
24
We are all Keensians now
Leith van Onselen
12 years ago
37
Clearing derivatives
Guest post from Satyajit Das: The key element of derivative market reform is a central clearinghouse, the central counter party (“CCP”).
David Llewellyn-Smith
12 years ago
9
Myth of the socialist classroom experiment
For over fifteen years, a story about a professor’s classroom experiment of ‘socialising’ grades has been circulating around the globe in various forms, and mostly recently as a chain email.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
29
Economics of piracy
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
29
Keen questions economics of free trade
In his trademark way, Steve Keen recently upset the apple cart of the economic mainstream by questioning the assumptions economists make to explain the benefits of free trade between nations.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
37
Have we passed peak travel?
Most economists understand is that growth in mobility and travel has for centuries signalled growing prosperity.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
7
Steven Keen on BBC’s HARDTalk
Find below a video of Steve Keen’s recent appearance on BBC HARDTalk.
David Llewellyn-Smith
12 years ago
70
Peak life expectancy?
Life expectancy has peaked in some US States according to recent research.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
30
Reviewing Steve Keen
Australian economist Steve Keen has released a second edition of his book Debunking Economics.
Rumplestatskin
12 years ago
23
Is a Greek, in Germany, more productive?
Why don’t Australians fill up elevators even when there is long queue? The elevator will be labelled for a maximum capacity of 22 people, but once eight people go in, no one else will (except me of course).
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
35
The fat tax chimera
A couple of weeks back I noted that Hungary’s new fat tax is unlikely to slim the populous or reduce health costs.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
41
Who wants a ‘Vodka ALDI’?
How much of consumer spending is driven by our identity and the need to signal it to others?
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
28
Tax the poor so the rich can drive faster
One idea raised at this week’s tax talkfest was road congestion charging.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
58
Statistics lessons from The Drunkard’s Walk
Leonard Mlodinow’s terrific book The Drunkard’s Walk is an historical narrative on the philosophy of randomness and probability intertwined with modern statistical anecdotes.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
12
Where are all the deposits coming from?
It has been a while since the last mailbag but I got asked a cracking question over the weekend so it is definitely time to share another e-mail with the wise readership of MacroBusiness.
__ADAM__
13 years ago
72
The economics of housework
Earlier in the week I argued that coordination problems, in the same vein as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, potentially lead to suboptimal outcomes in terms of the trading off productivity gains for leisure instead of increased incomes.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
5
The false dichotomy of greed
__ADAM__
13 years ago
78
Quarry Australia has no people
Fungibility is a feature of a good where two items of that good are so close in their features that they equal substitutes.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
59
Hedonic price index limitations
In an ideal world, a selection of price indexes would be easily constructed and highly reflective of economic reality.
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
10
Fat tax won’t slim a thing
Rumplestatskin
13 years ago
12
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