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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...

EconSoc 2020-21
May 1, 20243 min read
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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...

EconSoc 2020-21
May 1, 20243 min read
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EconSoc 2020-21
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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...

Dhyana Nikunj Shah
Oct 1, 20213 min read
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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...

Elizabeth Vleeskens
Oct 1, 20213 min read
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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...

Rohan Bhatia
Oct 1, 20214 min read
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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...

Omead Musa
Sep 18, 20213 min read
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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...

Catalina Dowd
Sep 18, 20212 min read
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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...

Christopher Finnegan
Sep 17, 20213 min read
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Alternative Money
What exactly is wooden currency? Why should we consider it? “Sometimes, money. Just. Stops” said Warren Buffet, billionaire investor, in...

Elizabeth Vleeskens
Sep 17, 20213 min read
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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...

Naosheyrvaan Nasir
Sep 12, 20213 min read
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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...

Sophie Doherty
Sep 11, 20214 min read
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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...

Rishab Kumar
Sep 11, 20213 min read
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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...

John Dundas
Sep 11, 20213 min read
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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...

Sabrina Mock
May 16, 20212 min read
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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...

Finnegan Collins
May 3, 20213 min read
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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...

Omead Musa
Apr 13, 20212 min read
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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. ...

Olivia Ru
Mar 28, 20212 min read
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Inflated Expectations
Why has money supply increased? Why was CPI negative during June 2020 even though we should have experienced rampant inflation? Milton...

Finnegan Collins
Mar 8, 20213 min read
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