economics
Wiki
- : 💵 Meidner Plan: The Meidner Plan was an economic plan concocted in 1970s Sweden, within a specific context of widespread wage restraint …
- : 🔬 genetically-modified crops: Genetically modifying crops is a somewhat controversial practice that is nonetheless widespread for a number of reasons …
Posts
- : 💵 Micro post: If you remember the rant I posted a couple of weeks ago about how bullshit official unemployment figures are, you might …
- : 💵 The Massaged Unemployment Rate: Actually so annoyed that the media (even the “impartial” ABC!) is playing along with the government’s …
- : 🏙 Melbourne's Property Development Crisis: Like many people, I think, I have an instinctive contempt for property developers. It’s not that I object to new …
- : 💷 Micro post: Random fact: the reason an Australian dollar has long been worth approx. half a British pound is decimalisation. In both …
- : 💵 Micro post: For anyone curious about COL in different cities – I found this neat tool (external link) that compares it in …
Links
- : 💵 Link: “The End of the Road to Serfdom” by Cory Doctorow
- : 🏭 Link: “The Case for Degrowth”
- : 💵 Link: “Australia’s Unemployment System Is a Marketized, Bureaucratic Nightmare”
- : 💵 Link: “What would be different about a socialist economy?”
- : 🏘 Link: “Fifty-year mortgages that you pass on to your children – the new plan to boost home ownership”
- : 💵 Link: “Global hunger fight means no biofuel”
- : 🏭 Link: “Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature” by Cory Doctorow
- : 🏘 Link: “We Need Public Housing, Not Affordable Housing”
- : 💵 Link: “‘Dole bludger’ narrative has always been destructive and that's why some people like using it”
- : ✈️ Link: “One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of flying emissions”
- : 💵 Link: “Lift the minimum wage and employment still rises? How to anger the establishment and win a Nobel Prize”
- : 💵 Link: “Robert Menzies wouldn’t recognise the Liberal Party's employment policies today”
- : 🏙 Link: “Public Housing For All”
- : 🏘 Link: “Vacant Nuance in the Vacant Housing Debate” by Darrell Owens
- : 🏘 Link: “Canada’s Housing Market Is Out of Control”
- : 💵 Link: “Other Australians earn nothing like what you think. If you're on $59,538, you're typical”
- : 🏘 Link: “Just 1.2 per cent of rental properties in Australia are affordable for minimum wage earners, analysis finds”
- : 💵 Link: “If Australia was more democratic, would its economic policies be better?”
- : 💵 Link: “The Myth of the Barter Economy”
- : 💵 Link: “The Fight for Free Time Is a Feminist Issue”
- : 💵 Link: “Why jobseeker is stuck ‘in the early 90s’ and leaving Australians behind”
- : 🚊 Link: “The road to electric is filled with tiny cars”
- : 💵 Link: “Economics professor Ross Garnaut says Australia voluntarily keeps hundreds of thousands unemployed”
- : 💵 Link: “The Fake Debate Over a Minimum Wage”
- : 💵 Link: “Workers Should Take Back Control of Their Pension Funds”