Sitemap - 2024 - John Quiggin's Blogstack
Trump's dictatorship is a fait accompli
Education and Training for the Modern Labour Market
Time to renationalise electricity transmission
The end of US democracy: a flowchart
Some thoughts on the housing crisis
Deputy sheriff or imperial outpost ?
Expanding coal mines – and reaching net zero? Tanya Plibersek seems to believe both are possible
The US just lost a war, and no one noticed
In their plaintive call for a return to the office, CEOs reveal how little they are needed
The Australian states are natural political units
The implausibility of a Taiwan blockade
Researchers analysed 1,500 climate policies to find what works. These are the lessons for Australia
Chalmers is more in touch with the economy than the RBA
The RBA is making confusion about inflation and the cost of living even worse
Young men aren't shifting right ...
The not-so-strange shortage of conservative professors
The Chairman's Lounge view of the airline industry
AI won’t use as much electricity as we are told
Ask me anything (for this week)
Ask me anything (from last week)
The era of privatisation is nearly over. But cleaning up the mess left behind will take years
Czech nuclear deal shows CSIRO GenCost is too optimistic, and new nukes are hopelessly uneconomic
Ask me anything (from last week)
Why neither growth nor degrowth make sense as long-term objectives for Australia’s economy
ANZ’s $4.9 billion Suncorp takeover will now go ahead.
Coming soon from an AI near you
Updated: The European far right has abandoned nationalism ...
It’s time to give Labor’s first term a scorecard – have we actually seen any transformative vision?
PM must pick his winners with more care
The war to end war, still going on
Metallurgical coal is coming to the end of the road
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
Olympics 2032: Can Brisbane come out a winner?
Australia now has a $70 ‘shadow price’ on carbon emissions.
Dutton’s decaying nuclear energy plans have the briefest half-life
Four-day work weeks are inevitable
Big business in Australia faces less competition than almost anywhere else
Australia must wean itself from monster utes ...
The Australian Grand Prix is expecting a record turnout — but how does it benefit Victoria?
Towards deliberative Parliaments
On nuclear, Coalition prefers the optimism of misleading, decade-old, unverified claims
From micro to macro, Andrew Leigh’s accessible history covers the economic essentials
Back to the office: a solution in search of a problem
Light-touch competition policy hasn’t helped Australian mortgage holders. It’s time to get tough
For corporations, greed is good – so how can Australia really tackle price gouging?
Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object
The Stage 3 tax cuts are dead, long live the Stage 3a cuts
Why not go the long way around?
Won't somebody think of the old people?
Last rites for the efficient financial markets hypothesis
As the billionaires gather at Davos, it’s worth examining what’s become of their dreams
Australia’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t about the price of groceries. It’s about wealth distribution