Ideas@TheCentre
Christmas pudding without butter
Milton Friedman once quipped that if you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would be a shortage of sand within five years.
December 2011
Business Spectator
A wild forecast for Euro pain
In a more optimistic scenario, European politicians would realise that the euro cannot be saved and stopped pretending otherwise.
Ideas@TheCentre
World class economy, first class prices
No doubt the Australian economy has performed well in the past decades.
Other publications
Let the online bargain hunt begin, properly
Thanks to the high dollar, Australians have become the world’s most savvy online bargain hunters.
Business Spectator
A British pawn in Europe’s game
Perhaps it is dawning on Cameron that he had been moved like a pawn on a chessboard by his continental friends.
Research reports
Price Drivers: Five Case Studies in How Government is Making Australia Unaffordable
Government influences price levels in more ways than is immediately apparent.
Speeches
Economic journalism – an international perspective
Australian economic journalism does not have to be afraid of a comparison with the kind of journalism that is practiced abroad.
Business Spectator
Germany’s blissful euro ignorance
It is only a matter of time until reality will catch up with the Germans at some stage.
Research reports
Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies: The Sequel
In 2009, CIS Research Fellows Robert Carling and Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich predicted sovereign debt troubles on both sides of the Atlantic at a CIS event called ‘Trans-Atlantic Fiscal Follies.’
Ideas@TheCentre
Incentives are life and death
If there was one word to sum up the whole body of economic theory, it would have to be ‘incentives.’ People act on incentives.