Perhaps not so glamorous as the ones on the runway, economic models often get a bad wrap. Yannis Goutzamanis analyses some well-known and much used models and gives his take.
Yannis Goutzamanis recounts a passionate pub debate about money supply and inflation. He then examines the empirical basis for the popular quantity theory of money.
Yannis Goutzamanis considers the relationship between economic growth and environmental outcomes. Consideration of this relationship requires an examination of the controversial environmental Kuznets curve.
Has the American Dream really ceased to be a reality? Yannis Goutzamanis critically considers whether there have been changes to the socio-economic mobility in the United States in the recent decades.
Most mornings I am confronted with a choice of what to eat for breakfast. As a semi-rational individual, one would assume I would seek to maximise my benefits while minimising opportunity costs when making this choice.
I remember sitting in a finance lecture on superannuation, presumably paying little attention, until the lecturer suddenly decided to embark upon a tangential rant. Being an avid listener of talkback radio on the long drives to and from Monash University, Clayton, I had acquired a taste for the rhetorical art-form commonly known as ‘the rant’. I listened keenly.
In my previous article I wrote about housing affordability and the first homebuyer’s scheme as an example of unsound public policy that exacerbates the housing affordability problem. In this article, I shall turn my attention towards tax concessions and consider their impact on housing affordability.
Missed ESSA’s Q&A event this year? Follow the recap, as tweeted by our audience.
This semester I took part in an exciting program run by the Monash Law Students’ Society revolving around social justice and leadership. The group I was part of looked at homelessness in Australia and I focused on housing affordability. In this article I will consider the economics of this social justice issue.
While reading fellow ESSA contributor Joey Moloney’s article I came across the under-consumption paradox. This was something that I had grappled with before in trying to reconcile the microeconomic lessons about price floors and the minimum wage with macroeconomic lessons about aggregate income and expenditure and the Keynesian Cross. It seems many other people have observed this contradiction before, including Karl Marx.
Yannis Goutzamanis applies Anthony Downs’ original Paradox of Voting to our federal elections. Do Australians really benefit from voting?
When I saw the word calculus in my lecture slides I had to double-check that I wasn’t actually sitting in an economics class. Sure enough, I was in a torts law lecture.
In the tort of negligence the ‘calculus of negligence’ is a term used to describe the weighing up of diverse variables to assess whether a party has behaved appropriately in the face of a foreseeable risk. This inquiry is made to determine whether the party has breached a duty of care.