ROSS GITTINS

Economics is changing. It’s relying less on theorising about how the economy works, and more on testing to see whether there’s hard empirica...

There’s a lot you can learn about the world of work – and human nature in general – from studying economics. Then again, there’s a lot you c...

I find it hugely encouraging. Don’t know if you’ve heard the glad tidings but, on his road to Damascus – or, in this case, Paris – our own M...

Talk about don’t mention the war. The great and good – who miss jetting off overseas several times a year – keep telling us the economy won’...

It surprises me that, though the nation’s been watching anxiously for more than a year as our politicians struggle with the repeated failure...

If Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg are looking for ideas about what more they could be doing to secure our economic future – after all, t...

Those leftie academics who keep accusing Scott Morrison and his government of being “neo-liberal” aren’t keeping up. This government’s neo-l...

Budgets come and, all too soon, budgets go. A big deal in the latest one was the government’s response to the royal commission’s report on t...

Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg won’t admit it. But most economists agree that at the right time, the government should take measures to ...

Whether they realise it or not – probably not – the people up in arms about the size of the federal public debt and criticising Scott Morris...

If you’ve gained the impression that in their pre-election budget Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg have gone on a wild, vote-buying cash s...

The media missed the big story in last week’s budget. They were present to observe a rare event – a shift in the economic management paradig...

What this week’s budget proves is that fiscal (budgetary) stimulus really works, something many economists had come to doubt over the four d...

This is the lick-and-a-promise budget. The budget that proves it is possible to be half pregnant. Which makes it the couldabeen budget. Sco...

In Tuesday night’s budget, it will be important to note its assumptions about when our international borders will be back to functioning nor...

The economy’s rebound from the lockdowns of last year has been truly remarkable – far better than anyone dared to hope. Even so, it’s not qu...

Sometimes I think the smartest thing a nation can do to improve its economic fortunes is elect a leader who’s lucky. The miracle-working Sco...