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Tag Archives: Free market
Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
This article was first published in The Conversation. Warwick Smith, University of Melbourne This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, Economic theory, Gender
Tagged child care, employment, Federal election 2019, Free market, gender pay gap, Labor party, women
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Op-ed in The Australian that attacks my guardian article is incoherent
The below op-ed was published in last week’s Australian. It is critical of my piece in The Guardian the week before. I contemplated publishing a reply but after reading the piece properly there’s actually very little substance to reply to. … Continue reading
Posted in Economic theory, Op-ed, philosophy of economics
Tagged deficit, Economic policy, Free market, government budget, The Australian, The Guardian
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Free market economics and fake moon landings
Yet another paper has emerged showing a strong correlation between belief in free market ideology and climate change denial (1). The article, NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, climate science is a hoax finds a very strong negative relationship between degree … Continue reading
