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Apr 1, 2019

How corporates care for kids

In recent years, we’ve seen a resurgence of marketing campaigns targeted at children — Coles’ “Little Shop ”, Woolworths’ “Mr Squiggle”…

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Feb 25, 2019

Much ado about muffin means it’s time to talk minimum wages

So the CEO of Muffin Break has discovered over the weekend that there’s muffin so offensive to millennials on social media as her comments…

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Feb 25, 2019

Ignore Hayne and deregulate the banking sector

It may seem paradoxical — even insane in polite society. But with a surge of new technologies emerging, which could provide competition…

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Nov 5, 2018

Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has value

Could free units of a new digital currency end up being worth thousands of dollars?

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Oct 30, 2018

How markets are making our lives better

The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed, it’s up to A$1 in A$5 of the…

How markets are making our lives better

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Aug 28, 2018

The economics of Australia’s too-common leadership spills

At the end of another week of chaos in Canberra, we’re all asking why this keeps happening. Why are our leaders playing politics instead of…

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Aug 28, 2018

Explainer: what is loss aversion and is it real?

A recent study claims a core idea in behavioural economics — loss aversion — is a fallacy. Loss aversion is the theory that the pain of…

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Aug 14, 2018

Obesity is a market failure and innovation, not sin taxes, may be the solution

The standard economic response to high and rising obesity is to levy what’s known as a “sin tax”. The thinking is simple — add a tax to the…

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Jun 26, 2018

Doomsaying about new technology helps make it better

That new technologies could actually be bad for us, by sapping our attention or ruining our memories, is an argument that goes back to…

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May 30, 2018

A Public Choice case study: Senator Hanson and Company Tax

Senator Pauline Hanson is considered something of a dangerous joke in polite Australian society — an Australian Nigel Farage to placate the…

Brendan Markey-Towler

Brendan Markey-Towler

Researcher in psychological and technological economics at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia

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