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EconSoc 2020-21
May 2, 20243 min read
Rethinking Green Transportation: Beyond Electric Vehicles to E-Bikes
Written by Jordan Blockley (Financial Economics) With Australia’s ambitious climate target of a 43% reduction in emissions by 2030, we...
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EconSoc 2020-21
May 2, 20243 min read
Is this the turning point in Australia’s competition problem?
Written by Daniel Chenu, B Economics B Advanced Studies (Economics and Political Economy) All businesses are equal, though some are more...
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EconSoc 2020-21
Aug 4, 20230 min read
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Dhyana Nikunj Shah
Oct 1, 20213 min read
What were the economic impacts of the Olympics on Japan?
Was the Olympics worth delaying it or should they have been cancelled entirely? The Olympics is the largest multi-sport event held every...
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Elizabeth Vleeskens
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Is Platform Capitalism Killing Liberal Democracy?
Are online platforms becoming too powerful? Are we losing our freedom? To paraphrase John Philpot Curran (1750-1817): The price of...
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Rohan Bhatia
Oct 1, 20214 min read
An Economic Future with Bitcoin
What does Bitcoin have over fiat currencies? Does Bitcoin have what it takes to play the role that gold has played historically? Can it...
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Omead Musa
Sep 18, 20213 min read
Yes, In My BackYard: Solving the Housing Crisis
Why are young people struggling to enter the housing market? How can we solve this problem? The housing market has a unique place inside...
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Catalina Dowd
Sep 18, 20212 min read
What are the implications of underemployment in the Australian context?
What is underemployment? How is it costing us? What can we do about it? Underemployment refers to a mismatch between an individual’s...
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Christopher Finnegan
Sep 17, 20213 min read
How the G7 can truly build a better world (and why they won’t)
Does the G7 actually want to build a better world? What's stopping them? In June of this year, the G7 announced a new global...
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Elizabeth Vleeskens
Sep 17, 20213 min read
Alternative Money
What exactly is wooden currency? Why should we consider it? “Sometimes, money. Just. Stops” said Warren Buffet, billionaire investor, in...
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Naosheyrvaan Nasir
Sep 12, 20213 min read
Using exports to ascertain Australia’s COVID-19-less economy
What will a covid-19 less economy look like? How can we make a prediction using exports? The economic commentary before the...
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Sophie Doherty
Sep 11, 20214 min read
Sydney’s Residential Property Boom
Why do residential property prices continue to surge despite an ongoing financial crisis? Aren't property investors scared? The Sydney...
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Rishab Kumar
Sep 11, 20213 min read
Has the Australian Government taken effective economic action towards the COVID-19 recovery?
RBA essentially "printing money", casuals getting pay raises and other decisions made on the fly. Was it all worth it? The Australian...
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John Dundas
Sep 11, 20213 min read
Dodgy Dealings at the Petrol Pump?
What can we do about it? Petrol prices - they’re on every street corner, they’re a buzz topic for the evening news and, if you’re...
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Sabrina Mock
May 16, 20212 min read
The Newly Found Guilt Around Thrift
Is the Newly Found Guilt Around Thrift Shopping Necessary? We always seem to be talking about thrift shopping as if it only applies to...
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Finnegan Collins
May 3, 20213 min read
Quantitative Appeasing
What is quantitative easing? Why would the RBA want to use it? ”First, do no harm”. Many medical students still take a revised version of...
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Omead Musa
Apr 13, 20212 min read
Australia’s Case for a Renewed Trans-Pacific Partnership
At the start of the new decade, Australia finds itself facing three crisis all at once: a global pandemic, an economic recession and a...
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Olivia Ru
Mar 28, 20212 min read
Modern Monetary Theory: Is public debt as bad as it sounds?
A radical school of Economic thought suggests that budget deficits have been excessively villainised in traditional fiscal policy. ...
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Finnegan Collins
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Inflated Expectations
Why has money supply increased? Why was CPI negative during June 2020 even though we should have experienced rampant inflation? Milton...
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