Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone
Aug 13, 2018 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This is the first of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the second part here. Obesity levels in Australia and around the world are high and rising. This comes at an enormous economic cost for society...
Obesity is a market failure and innovation, not sin taxes, may be the solution
Aug 13, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
This is the second of a two-part series on obesity as a market failure. Read the first part here. The standard economic response to high and rising obesity is to levy whats known as a sin tax. The thinking is simple ...
Refugees are integrating just fine in regional Australia
Aug 13, 2018 13:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As the Australian population surpassed the 25 million mark last week, another immigration debate emerged over the burden newcomers are placing on Melbourne and Sydney in terms of congestion and rising home prices. With...
'Just a piece of meat': how homeless women have little choice but to use sex for survival
Aug 13, 2018 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Women comprise 42% of Australias homeless population. Not only do many women become homeless due to family violence, homelessness can expose them to further gendered violence. Research shows homeless women experience...
Ghana is looking to outer space. It needs the law to match
Aug 13, 2018 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Rapid advances in space technology mean that space is no longer simply a stargazers paradise. The socio-economic benefits possible from the use of space technology and research are endless. For instance, satellite...
Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here's what could happen next
Aug 13, 2018 13:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In the first of many pending lawsuits to go to trial, a jury in San Francisco concluded on Aug. 10 that the plaintiff had developed cancer from exposure to Roundup, Monsantos widely used herbicide, and ordered the company...
Hedging Dynamics of BTC and ETH Using Quanto Perpetual Swap
Aug 13, 2018 12:51 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views
Despite the crypto market downturn which began after the news of the US Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) delayed decision on an ETF product approval,BitMEXhas also announced the launch of two derivatives products,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects