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Alex Robson
How much do we actually spend on early childhood?
International comparisons of public spending data are ubiquitous in economics. But what do such exercises actually tell us? When performed correctly by economists, international comparisons can often provide useful information and insights into...
Tax Cuts Not Stimulus Spending
Over the course of the 2008-09 financial year the Australian Government took a series of significant fiscal policy decisions which were designed to act as an economic stimulus. This paper asks the following simple hypothetical question: if those...
Theft? What has been stolen?
What Price Spending? The lost opportunity of the 2007 federal election
What if an election was held and all that was offered was tax cuts? During this election campaign both parties have promised to increase government spending. This paper evalutes how deep the tax cuts would have been had the parties chosen to cut...
The abuse of economic terminology
Certainly clouds the IPCC
The economics of Ross Gittens
The popular press often has a difficult relationship with the economic profession.