Fresh Economic Thinking

<p>Jay Lasker, aka Crémieux on Twitter/X, has spent the past few years digging into bad science and its bad data, especially in health science. </p><p>For example, the rise in autism is almost solely due to expanded...

<p>You may have heard that our town planning system of rules and institutions that govern land uses in cities and often across the country is stifling new housing production, causing high prices. </p><p>But much of the...

<p>Has the cultural and political pendulum swung too far in favour of women?</p><p>That’s the argument made by David Maywald in his new book, The Relentless War on Masculinity. </p><p>He doesn’t argue that women have...

<p>During the COVID panic one of the sane voices was congitive scientist Mark Changizi. He saw the resulting panic as an emergent social and cultural phenomenon, and went as far as to sue the Department of Health and...

<p>Wouldn’t it be great if we had a coherent way of understanding the economics of housing supply?</p><p>You might be surprised, given the confidence of the prognostications of public commentators, that most don’t have...

<p>Previously, I have described an educational experiment happening in a castle in Belgium, called Academia Libera Mentis (ALM). It is run by my friend and co-author, Paul Frijters, with his wife Erika Turkstra, and...

<p>A long chat with power engineer Ben Beattie about Australia’s energy conversation, some of the muddled economics and arguments in favour of privatisation, public provision, and more. </p><p>Check out Ben’s Baseload...

<p>Is Australia’s housing market REALLY functioning normally? Regular co-host Jonathan Gadir pushes back on my recent statements about the housing market doing exactly what we should expect it to do in a conversation...

<p>James Nuzzo’s sports science and health research shows the gap between perception and reality when it comes to gender issues. This research, and especially his public comments about his various studies, got him...

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<p>Would you believe that the same stories told in Australian housing debates about a lack of supply were dominant in Toronto, Canada, right up until the bust?</p><p>I speak with Canadian real estate analyst and broker...

<p>Regular co-host Jonathan Gadir pushes back on my claim that Australia’s economic complexity is fine. Can a more complex economy generate better job choices and higher wages? Is it really okay to outsource the...

<p>Too often, the public debate about housing focuses on costs and ignores investment returns to property owners. </p><p>Mike Fellman was an economist at Freddie Mac and is now a property investor. He explains in this...

<p>How do organisations that emerge to help people end up degrading over time and becoming a plain old shakedown?</p><p>That’s the topic I discuss with regular co-host Jonathan Gadir. </p><p>Although we don’t mention...

<p>Will rent control destroy your city? Or is this a slogan economists use to signal their tribal allegiance?</p><p>Cahal Moran, aka Unlearning Economics, discusses his intellectual journey into economics and the...