The absorbing and expanding social science of economics
Associate Professor at UNSW School of Economics, Gigi Foster, examines the future of economics, through the lens of social science.
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Your economics education: how to travel the path to enlightenment, rather than the road to hell
Ten critical pieces of advice for all new economics students, from academic Gigi Foster.
Living Economics Part 3: Consumers, producers, and the evolution of economies
Using Darwinism to explain economics: producers as species fighting for survival, innovation as mutation, consumers as the selective environment, and the economy as an ecosystem.
Living Economics Part 2: Stimulus-response on the demand side
The psychology of preferences: UNSW’s Gigi Foster delivers her second blog post on social trends that underlie demand, and how economies can be destabilised when these change.
Living Economics Part 1: Stimulus-response on the supply side
UNSW researcher Gigi Foster brings to life the seminal ideas of Adam Smith, father of free market economics, in a series of blogs.