ROSS GITTINS

You could be forgiven for not knowing this is anti-poverty week. The poor, as we know, are always with us – which is great because it means ...

It’s amazing so many people are so sure they can see where the Reserve Bank is headed. Once interest rates are down to zero it will be on to...

According to the Essential opinion poll, only 6 per cent of people regard the size of the national surplus as the most important indicator o...

I’d like to tell you I’ve been away working hard on a study tour of the Nordic economies – or perhaps tracing the remnant economic impact of...

When one of our top econocrats gives a speech about behavioural economics, you know we’re making progress. Take the ever-present problem of ...

The world is a complicated place – partly because humans are complicated animals. One of the many things this means is that when governments...

The beginning of economic wisdom is to understand that the advanced economies – including ours – have stopped working the way they used to a...

Don’t look now, but Australians’ economic dealings with the rest of the world have transformed while our attention has been elsewhere. Busi...

If you like made-up, clunky words you could call it the humanisation of economics. And it’s one of the most exciting developments in a field...

As if Scott Morrison didn’t have enough problems on his plate, we learnt last week that government-administered prices are rising much faste...