Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
An economist specialising in property and urban development, environmental economics, rent-seeking and corruption.
New book — Game of Mates: How favours bleed the nation.
Writes for MacroBusiness, Evonomics, and maintains an internationally renowned personal blog called Fresh Economic Thinking.
A contributor to the economics discipline - a teacher, a working party member for developing Australian Learning Standards in Economics, economics committee member at Healthy Waterways, and an active member of the Economic Society of Australia.
Stamp duty fever: the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land tax
Nov 14, 2018 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
To paraphrase former prime minister Paul Keating, walk into any pet shop in the country and youll find the resident galah saying we should swap stamp duty for a land value tax. Just about every economic think tank in...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India