-
Recent Posts
- Dipping the Budget’s toe in the waters of wellbeing
- Chalmers hasn’t delivered a wellbeing budget, but it’s a step in the right direction
- Beyond GDP: Chalmers’ historic moment to build wellbeing
- RN Breakfast interview on stamp duties and land taxes
- Doughnut economics article turned into a podcast episode
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsTags
- 2ser
- Australia
- banking and finance
- budget
- class
- climate
- climate change
- consumerism
- deficit
- democracy
- ecological footprint
- economic growth
- Economic policy
- economic rent
- employment
- environment
- Free market
- gdp
- government
- government budget
- history
- Independent Australia
- industrial relations
- inequality
- Ken Henry
- land tax
- Malcolm Turnbull
- mining
- neo-classical economics
- Nietzsche
- philosophy
- podcast
- political donations
- political theory
- politics
- rent-seeking
- resource rent tax
- retirement
- superannuation
- taxation
- taxation policy
- tax to GDP ratio
- The Age
- The Conversation
- The Drum
- The Guardian
- The Monthly
- unemployment
- wellbeing
- women
Categories
- Ageing population
- Australian politics
- climate change
- conservation
- democracy
- Economic theory
- finance
- Gender
- housing affordability
- Inequality
- Land tax
- Media appearance
- Modern Monetary Theory
- movie review
- neo-classical economics
- Op-ed
- philosophy of economics
- political economy
- Political philosophy
- radio
- radio interview
- Speech
- statistics
- superannuation
- Sustainability
- tax economics
- TV
- Uncategorized
- unemployment
- war crimes
- wellbeing
Category Archives: climate change
Stay in the doughnut, not the hole: how to get out of the crisis with both our economy and environment intact
pxfuel, CC BY Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Economic theory
Tagged ABC News, Circular Economy, Doughnut Economics, The Conversation
Leave a comment
How our economy is like an out of control AI
By Warwick Smith | 8 September 2019, 12:30pm First published at Independent Australia Humans, individually, can be incredibly brilliant but collectively we’re often puzzlingly stupid. To take a simple, uncontroversial example, we know that forests are critical for our survival. … Continue reading
The simple approach to carbon
By Warwick Smith First published in The Canberra Times and other Fairfax newspapers. What is fee and dividend carbon pricing? Carbon fee and dividend is a model for pricing climate pollutants where a fee is charged on producers of emissions, … Continue reading
China’s ETS will boost Turnbull’s chances of shifting Coalition policy – The Drum
OPINION By Warwick Smith Originally published by the ABC at The Drum. Posted Mon at 4:19pm PHOTO: A woman rides her bicycle past a coal power station in Beijing. (David Gray, file photo: Reuters) It would be a mistake to … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, climate change
Tagged carbon pricing, climate, ETS, Malcolm Turnbull, The Drum
Leave a comment
Abbott’s love of coal is holding us back on emissions targets – The Drum
Originally published at The Drum (ABC). By Warwick Smith Posted 11 Aug 2015, 4:23pm A larger emissions reduction target would have come at very little additional cost to GDP, but it would have involved the loss of jobs in the … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Sustainability
Tagged Australia, climate, climate change, coal, emission reduction, government budget, Tony Abbott
Leave a comment
What will you lose when the carbon bubble bursts?
By Warwick Smith Last week I attended a panel discussion on whether or not the bursting of the carbon bubble would cause the next global financial crisis. The event was organised by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and … Continue reading
Posted in climate change
Tagged climate change, Economic policy, politics, Ross Garnaut, superannuation
Leave a comment
My latest at The Guardian questions the value of pursuing economic growth at all costs
Do we dare to question economic growth? We’ve all been so effectively sold the line that endless growth is essential to maintain and improve our quality of life. This couldn’t be further from the truth By Warwick Smith First published … Continue reading
Article at The Drum on tax and dividend carbon pricing
Carbon price round two: let’s get it right this time By Warwick Smith Originally published at ABC’s The Drum Posted Fri 29 Aug 2014 Photo: A tax and dividend system could quickly result in a price high enough for renewable … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, climate change, tax economics
Tagged climate, climate change, Economic policy, environment, taxation policy, The Drum
Leave a comment
Snowpiercer, a film that makes you cheer against yourself
By Warwick Smith The bizarre and gratuitously violent, soon-to-be-cult movie that is Snowpiercer is in a long tradition of film and fiction writing that casts radical judgment on its audience. The teenage cult sensation The Hunger Games sits in powerful … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Inequality, movie review, Political philosophy
Tagged asylum seekers, class, immigration, snowpiercer
2 Comments
The perils of the last human – by Warwick Smith in New Philosopher magazine
Issue # 5 of New Philosopher is out today and in it is my piece about what we can learn from Nietzsche about modern political economy and climate change. For those of you who don’t know it, New Philosopher magazine … Continue reading
Reconstructing Economics 