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Less trusting, more financially stressed: new data show how Australians feel about their lives
This article was originially published at The Conversation on May 7 and is replublished here under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Kate Lycett, Deakin University; Georgie Frykberg, Deakin University, and Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne This … Continue reading
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The RBA’s policy deliberately creates unemployment. So why do we treat the jobless so badly?
This article was originally published at The Conversation on April 20, 2026 and is republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will look at the … Continue reading
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Is the capital gains tax discount an act of intergenerational ‘bastardry’?
This article is republished from The Conversation on March 19, 2026 under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne Former Treasury Secretary and chair of the Henry Tax Review, Ken Henry, has described … Continue reading
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‘Doughnut economics’ shows how global growth is out of balance – and how we can fix it
Originally published in The Conversation on October 13, 2025 (just catching up a bit on updating this site). Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne A new update to an influential economic theory called “Doughnut Economics” shows a global economy on … Continue reading
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Doughnut economics article turned into a podcast episode
I was asked to read my Conversation article, that was also republished by the ABC and The New Daily, for an episode of the Climactic podcast. https://omny.fm/shows/climactic-1/warwick-smith-stay-in-the-doughnut-not-the-hole-ho/embed
Trump: from crisis comes opportunity
17 November 2016 By Warwick Smith Originally published at Per Capita Australia The forward march of the neoliberal consensus had for decades appeared to be unstoppable. Somehow the wealthy elite managed to hoodwink us into believing that competition was the … Continue reading
What the government wants us to do – and not do – based on the budget – The Conversation
Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne Budgets are a good opportunity to see through the spin to what the government really wants. Forget the Treasurer’s speech and the budget overview, the truth is in the measures themselves. Generally things the government … Continue reading
Privatising Medicare payments is a distraction from real reform – The Drum
This article was originally published at The Drum. By Warwick Smith Posted 10 Feb 2016, 10:23am PHOTO: Are we facing a death by a thousand cuts approach to Medicare reform? (Giulio Saggin, file photo: ABC News) Would the privatisation of the … Continue reading
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Cabinet papers 1990: lessons from the recession we didn’t have to have – The Conversation
Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne Australia’s last formal recession ended in the September quarter of 1991. Once it sunk in that this was a serious economic downturn, treasurer Paul Keating famously referred to it as “the recession Australia had to … Continue reading
A Mea Culpa and Some Comments on MMT and Fiat Currency Economics
It has recently been pointed out to me that some of my writing on monetary economics has not given proper attribution to the intellectual tradition behind the ideas that I present and that this gives the impression that these are … Continue reading
Reconstructing Economics 