So Now You Have Bought An Emissions Trading Scheme
What is it? The emissions trading scheme, or ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’, is a ‘cap and trade’ system. This requires firms to obtain a government ‘permit’ if they emit...
Innovation Statement? The Government Doesn’t Even Allow Lemonade Stands
The story of what happened to Chelsea-lee Downes reveals everything that’s wrong with Australia’s attitude to innovation and risk-taking. Malcolm Turnbull and Chris Pyne’s...
UN Sustainable Development Goals Won’t Help The Poor
The UN ratified its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a month ago. $US2.5 trillion of foreign aid spending between 2015 and 2030 will be devoted to achieving them. UN Secretary-General...
Originally appeared in The Ethics Centre
The Sharing Economy – How Over-Regulation Could Destroy An Economic Revolution
The sharing economy describes a rise of new business models (‘platforms’) that uproot traditional markets, break down industry categories, and maximise the use of scarce resources. The best known...
Project Western Australia: A Growth and Productivity Agenda for the Next Government
The need for sound economic reform never ends. But there has never been a more important time than now. In this important volume, John Hyde and Andrew Pickford pull together the most…