An article came out in Nature last week, titled “A market approach to saving the whales”. We’re always interested in whale-economics, having written reports such as Whale Watching Worldwide and What’s.. read more
The ongoing debate over mandatory pre-commitment on pokies is big on hype, but at the heart of it all is the Productivity Commission’s (PC) inquiry into gambling. The report is.. read more
First day back in the Economists at Large office, so a good time to think about the year gone by and the year ahead. In 2011 the word “fracking”, was.. read more
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about some of the misconceptions surrounding the ban on live cattle exports. My main point was that neither the supportors of.. read more
Jessica Irvine has written an excellent article on The Age entitled “Enough of the pedlars in politics” that discusses the issue of ‘rent seeking‘. Rent seeking is a word used.. read more
Tristan and I are winding up our work in Laos for WWF’s sustainable rattan project. As we’re getting ready to head back home, we looked at the Australian news and.. read more
Between June and July this year, Economists at Large completed some work for the National Parks Association of New South Wales (NPANSW) looking into the economics of the Travelling Stock Routes and.. read more
Introduction Economic assessment of LAMP Tax concession for LAMP Recommendations Conclusions References Introduction A project by the Australian rare earths mining company Lynas Corporation Ltd was recently brought to the.. read more
Not to be outdone by the Institute for Public Affairs releasing “The Research” on carbon pricing, the Victorian government has commissioned Deloitte Access Economics to model the impacts of a.. read more
With the release of the Australian Government’s carbon pricing scheme on Sunday, Clean Energy Future, this antipodean nation with one of the highest per capita carbon emissions, has finally set.. read more
