Economics Explored
252 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHard-headed economic analysis applied to important economic, social, and environmental issues.
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What Economists do and why the world needs them
September 02, 2020 14:05 - 44 minutes - 36.7 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny chats with Brisbane-based businessman Tim Hughes about what economists do and why the world needs them. Relevant links include: Wired article on Google Chief Economist Dr Hal Varian Behavioural economics with Dr Brendan Markey-Towler
New Normal Post-COVID
August 26, 2020 14:05 - 24 minutes - 19.8 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny presents some of his preliminary views on what the New Normal post-COVID could be like. Links relevant to the conversation include: Will the Pandemic Push Knowledge Work into the Gig Economy? Some retailers are turning their shops into 'dark stores' as consumers turn to online shopping Home delivery of ‘comfort food’ increasing during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown Amazon sales soar as coronavirus-worried consumers shop from home, but costs rise PwC...
Gold with Darren Brady Nelson
August 19, 2020 14:05 - 36 minutes - 28.8 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses the drivers of the gold price with Darren Brady Nelson, Chief Economist of LibertyWorks and a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute. Links related to the conversation include: Darren's Mises Institute article How Fear and Uncertainty Drives Demand for Gold Sudden Media Infatuation With Keynes' "Barbaric Relic" - Gold Keynes vs Hayek rap battle Milton Friedman on the gold standard – Excerpt: The Man Who Knew Historical gold price data a...
The Deficit Myth & Modern Monetary Theory – initial views
August 12, 2020 14:06 - 37 minutes - 31.2 MBDiscussion of Stephanie Kelton’s book The Deficit Myth, which is popularising Modern Monetary Theory, between Economics Explained host Gene Tunny and his colleague Ben Scott from Adept Economics. Resources mentioned in the discussion include: Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe’s speech COVID-19, the Labour Market and Public Sector Balance Sheets Olivier Blanchard’s paper Public Debt and Low Interest Rates
Re-opening economies in this time of COVID-19 with Joe Branigan
August 05, 2020 12:10 - 47 minutes - 40 MBProfessor Henry Ergas and Joe Branigan have just had a new paper published by the Menzies Research Centre, COVID19: Getting Australia Safely Back to Work. Economics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Joe Branigan, Director of Tulipwood Economics, about the paper. For a sample of Joe’s comments and a link to an interview with Professor Ergas, check out: Suppression preferred over more costly elimination strategy say Ergas & Branigan
Challenges of Economic Forecasting in the COVID-19 Pandemic with Prof. Rodney Strachan
July 29, 2020 14:05 - 32 minutes - 25.2 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Professor Rodney Strachan regarding his recent video on the Challenges of Forecasting in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Professor Rodney Strachan is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Rodney received his PhD from Monash University in 2000. His research focuses on Bayesian analysis, econometric theory, and time series analysis. Rodney came to UQ from the Australian National University where he was a profes...
Valuing the Environment with Dr Boyd Blackwell
July 22, 2020 14:05 - 50 minutes - 40.1 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks to Dr Boyd Blackwell on the use of economic techniques to value the environment. Boyd is Director of AquaEquis Economic Consulting and the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics. Links relevant to the discussion include: Deloitte Value of the Great Barrier Reef report Conversation article critiquing economic value estimate of GBR Boyd’s economic analysis of Australian coastal wastewater outfalls Some number...
State Government Economic Responses to COVID-19
July 15, 2020 14:05 - 22 minutes - 19.3 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny presents and elaborates on his opening remarks to the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry on the state government’s economic response to COVID-19. The remarks are relevant to state or sub-national governments in countries other than Australia. Here are some relevant links: COVID19: Getting Australia Safely Back to Work (the new Menzies Research Centre paper from Dr Henry Ergas and Joe Branigan questioning the net benefits of lockdowns) The New Bradfield s...
Dynamic Pricing
July 08, 2020 14:05 - 39 minutes - 32.7 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses dynamic pricing, which is used by Uber and airlines among other businesses, with his Adept Economics colleague Ben Scott. Resources mentioned in the conversation include: Tim Harford's The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy Uber and airline dynamic pricing models can be viewed as both fair and predatory QPAC/QTIX to trial Uber-style surge pricing to boost revenue Matching and Dynamic Pricing in Ride-Hailing Platforms He has 17,...
Unfreezing Discount Rates with Marion Terrill of the Grattan Institute
July 01, 2020 14:05 - 41 minutes - 31.3 MBEconomics Explained Host Gene Tunny discusses unfreezing discount rates for infrastructure projects with Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director at the Grattan Institute, a leading Australian think tank. Marion is a leading policy analyst with experience that ranges from authoring parts of the 2010 Review of Australia’s Future Tax System to leading the design and development of the MyGov account. She has provided expert analysis and advice on labour market policy for the Aust...
Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19 with Prof. Tony Makin
June 24, 2020 14:05 - 41 minutes - 33.7 MBProfessor Tony Makin of Griffith University speaks about his new CIS Policy Paper A Fiscal Vaccine for COVID-19 with Economics Explained host Gene Tunny. In Tony’s words, “the paper considers the resurgence of crude Keynesianism before highlighting risks of the fiscal legacy.” Tony Makin is Professor of Economics at Griffith University and has previously taught at the University of Queensland, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and in the Austra...
Gender pay gap recap
June 17, 2020 14:05 - 37 minutes - 31.4 MBWhy is there a gender pay gap - i.e. why do women earn less than men on average? To what extent is it due to working in different types of jobs, levels of experience or education, or discrimination and biases? Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses the evidence with his colleague Benjamin Scott, Research Officer at Adept Economics. Resources mentioned in the discussion include: Blau and Kahn JEL article on the gender wage gap Ross Guest on the Real Gender Pay Gap KPMG She's Price...
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Economists
June 10, 2020 14:05 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks about one of his favourite books, Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with Tim Hughes, a Brisbane-based businessman (Urban Ergo). Gene speaks about how he sees the lessons applying to economists. A 30th anniversary edition of the 7 Habits was published this year. Links related to the discussion include: Art of Manliness episode on 30th anniversary of the 7 Habits Paul Frijters on coronavirus Who pays Trump's tariffs, China or ...
Picking winners: Industry policy with Craig Lawrence
June 03, 2020 14:05 - 58 minutes - 44.9 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Craig Lawrence, Managing Director of Lytton Advisory, regarding the pros and cons of picking winners and interventionist industry policy more broadly. Craig Lawrence has over 30 years of experience across government and private sector projects, particularly in infrastructure, transport, and tourism. Prior to establishing Lytton Advisory, Craig was Director-Infrastructure Policy at the Queensland Government Department of State Development, Infr...
Uncertainty and the perils of prediction with William M Briggs
May 27, 2020 14:05 - 50 minutes - 41.2 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with statistician William M “Matt” Briggs about uncertainty and the perils of prediction. Matt is a consulting statistician and a policy advisor to the Heartland Institute. He has been a visiting Professor of Statistics at Central Michigan University and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the Cornell Medical School. Matt is the author of the 2016 book Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability and Statistics, published by Springer. In the i...
US infrastructure: lessons from Australia, with Darren Brady Nelson
May 20, 2020 14:05 - 36 minutes - 30.6 MBDarren Brady Nelson speaks about his new Heartland Institute Policy Brief How to fix America's crumbling infrastructure: lessons from Australia with Economics Explained host Gene Tunny. Darren is an Austrian school economist who serves as the chief economist at LibertyWorks, an Australian think tank, and as an associate scholar with the US Center for Freedom and Prosperity. He is also a policy advisor to the Heartland Institute. Darren has previously worked for NSW Treasury, various consul...
Working from home during & after the pandemic with Alison Pennington
May 13, 2020 14:05 - 36 minutes - 28.1 MBWorking from Home: Opportunities and Risks is a new briefing paper from Alison Pennington and Jim Stanford from the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute. Economics Explained host Gene Tunny interviews Alison regarding the paper in this episode. Alison Pennington is Senior Economist with the Centre for Future Work. Her research focus is on work in Australia today, and in the future. She received a Master of Political Economy from the University of Sydney. Her research focus was...
Highlights of recent coronavirus-related episodes
May 06, 2020 14:05 - 49 minutes - 38.2 MBThis episode is a review of the big issues covered in recent Economics Explained episodes on coronavirus. Economics Explained host Gene Tunny and Brisbane-based businessman Tim Hughes of Urban Ergo react to excerpts of recent episodes and discuss the important policy issues regarding coronavirus. Timestamps Use these (approximate) timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 1:40 – radical uncertainty around coronavirus impacts, featuring an excerpt from EP33 with Prof. John Kay CBE 11:4...
Radical Uncertainty with Prof. John Kay CBE
April 29, 2020 14:05 - 30 minutes - 23.5 MBRadical Uncertainty: Decision making for an unknowable future is a new book from eminent British economists Professor John Kay CBE, FRSE, FBA, FAcSS and former Bank of England Governor Lord Mervyn King. Economics Explained host Gene Tunny interviews Professor Kay about the book in this episode. Timestamps Use these (approximate) timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 2:34 – John Kay on what is meant by Radical Uncertainty, beginning with references to Maynard Keynes and Frank Knight...
Bailouts in this time of coronavirus with Dr Dan Mitchell
April 22, 2020 14:05 - 36 minutes - 29.5 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Dr Dan Mitchell about government bailouts of companies such as airlines which we are seeing in this time of coronavirus. Dr Mitchell is the Founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity and a former Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. He runs the highly informative and thought-provoking blog International Liberty. Timestamps Use these (approximate) timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 1:05 – discussion of venture capitalist Chamat...
Paying for the coronavirus rescue measures with Joe Branigan
April 15, 2020 14:26 - 52 minutes - 45.2 MBSocial distancing measures to contain coronavirus have crashed economies around the world, reducing government tax revenues. At the same time, governments have brought in massive economic rescue packages to support workers and businesses. An obvious question is: where is the money coming from to pay for these rescue packages and to make up for the lost tax revenue? Economics Explained host Gene Tunny explores this question with Joe Branigan, Director of Tulipwood Economics. Timestamps Use...
Certified Corona-Immunity as a Resource with Prof. Benno Torgler
April 08, 2020 14:05 - 30 minutes - 22.3 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Professor Benno Torgler of QUT about a new paper he has co-authored: Certified Corona-Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs. Professor Benno Torgler is Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance and Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST), QUT. He was also Adjunct Professor at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Germany (2012-2015) and an ARC Future Fellow (2011-201...
Coronavirus responses with Joe Branigan, Tulipwood Economics
April 01, 2020 14:17 - 36 minutes - 31.3 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses coronavirus policy responses with Joe Branigan, Director, Tulipwood Economics. The episode features a discussion of what we're learning from around the world, including from experiences in Australia, NZ, Italy, and the US, among other countries. Use these timestamps to help you jump to the highlights: 1:50 - Joe reviews international data on coronavirus cases as at 1 April 5:00 - how case fatality rates depend on the testing regime 7:30 - why...
Coronavirus policy responses with Dr Nicholas Gruen of Lateral Economics
March 25, 2020 14:05 - 38 minutes - 28.9 MBWould strong early action on coronavirus have been better, from both public health and economic perspectives, than the incremental policy responses we have seen in countries such as Australia and the US? In this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses policy responses to coronavirus with Dr Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics. Nicholas is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London, and former Chair of several government, non-profit, and private sector organisations, i...
COVID-19, machine trading & financial markets with Michael Knox
March 18, 2020 14:05 - 29 minutes - 22.5 MBWhy are financial markets swinging so wildly in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19? Economics Explained host Gene Tunny speaks with Michael Knox, Chief Economist of Morgans, who thinks it's related to the machine trading programs which dominate financial markets. Morgans is Australia's largest national full-service stockbroking and wealth management network with more than 240,000 client accounts, 500 authorised representatives and 950 employees operating from offices in all states ...
City Infrastructure with Craig Lawrence
March 11, 2020 14:05 - 54 minutes - 42.3 MBA lot of the infrastructure assets relevant to our daily lives, such as roads, bridges, and parks, are provided by city or municipal governments. In this episode, we ask the question: how should we assess the economic viability of city infrastructure projects? To answer this question, we’ve invited Craig Lawrence, Managing Director of Lytton Advisory, back on to the program. Lytton Advisory is an Australian professional services firm specialising in infrastructure economics and decision maki...
Climate change with Nicki Hutley from Deloitte Access Economics
March 04, 2020 14:05 - 33 minutes - 25.6 MBIn an Australian ABC News story in early February, Deloitte Access Economics Partner Nicki Hutley referred to the potential cost of climate change as “astronomical”. In this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny chats with Nicki about the cost of action compared with the cost of inaction on climate change. Use these (approximate) timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 1:10 – Nicki describes why the costs of unmitigated climate change would be "astronomical" 4:40 – reference t...
The FIRE movement with Dr Di Johnson
February 26, 2020 14:05 - 35 minutes - 24.9 MBBloggers such as Mr Money Mustache and the Financial Samurai have been responsible for starting a new movement: the FIRE movement. FIRE stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. By early, proponents typically mean retiring in your 30s or 40s. To discuss the FIRE movement, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny has invited Griffith University Business School lecturer Dr Di Johnson back on to the program. Di is a member of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial C...
Entrepreneurship with Professor Peter G. Klein
February 19, 2020 14:05 - 45 minutes - 35.1 MBMany universities now offer courses in entrepreneurship, as students have been inspired by tech entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. But what exactly is entrepreneurship and who qualifies as an entrepreneur? Is entrepreneurship essential for economic growth? To help answer these questions, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny invited Professor Peter G. Klein on to the program. Peter is W. W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University in Texas. He is al...
Antitrust with Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute
February 12, 2020 14:05 - 36 minutes - 28.3 MBThe massive market power of the big tech companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, has prompted a renewed interest in antitrust laws. To help us understand antitrust, we’ve invited Danielle Wood from the Grattan Institute on to Economics Explained. The Grattan Institute is a leading Australian public policy think tank based in Melbourne. Danielle is Budget Policy and Institutional Reform Program Director at Grattan. Later this year, she will take up the CEO position at the Institute...
Surveillance Capitalism with Darren Brady Nelson
February 05, 2020 14:05 - 52 minutes - 40.9 MBSo-called surveillance capitalism was one of the big issues for the 2020s identified in the first Economics Explained episode this year. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants have massive amounts of data on us and they are using it for commercial gain. In this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses various perspectives on surveillance capitalism with his good friend Darren Brady Nelson, Chief Economist of LibertyWorks, an Australian libertarian think tank. Darren’s recentl...
Innovation + Equality with Dr Andrew Leigh MP
January 29, 2020 14:05 - 31 minutes - 26.1 MBAustralian economist and federal Member of Parliament Dr Andrew Leigh is interviewed about his new book with co-author Professor Joshua Gans Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future that is More Star Trek than Terminator, published by MIT Press in 2019. This wide-ranging conversation covers a range of issues, including labour market impacts of digital disruption, universal basic income, and how to improve teacher effectiveness, among other issues. Use these timestamps to jump right to ...
Cannabis with Dr Stephen Thornton
January 22, 2020 14:05 - 55 minutes - 46.4 MBSeveral jurisdictions around the world, such as the US states of California and Colorado, have legalised cannabis, also known as marijuana. In Australia, the Australian Capital Territory will become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise recreational cannabis use on the last day of January 2020. What are the pros and cons of cannabis legalisation? To help us answer this question, we’re joined this episode by Dr Stephen Thornton of BG Economics, a Brisbane-based economic consulting fir...
Government spending and economic growth with Dr Dan Mitchell
January 15, 2020 14:05 - 35 minutes - 28.4 MBHere’s a link to Dr Dan Mitchell’s International Liberty blog. Use these timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 1:40 – Gene mentions the Optimal size of government in Australia paper co-authored by Griffith University Professor Tony Makin and Economic Society of Australia (QLD) President Julian Pearce 3:00 – Dan notes empirical literature suggests optimal size of government around 20% of GDP 10:20 – discussion of OECD research on government spending and growth (see this OECD workin...
Global population growth
January 08, 2020 14:05 - 37 minutes - 29.1 MBThere are currently around 7.7 billion people in the world. The UN is projecting global population will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050 and to nearly 11 billion by 2100. Obviously, this projected growth raises a range of economic, social, and environmental challenges. In this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses global population growth with his good friend Tim Hughes from Urban Ergo. The UN’s World Population Prospects 2019 projections get mentioned a lot in this episode....
Big economic issues for the 2020s
January 01, 2020 14:05 - 20 minutes - 16.1 MBUse these timestamps to jump right into the episode: 2:15 – Larry Summers’s secular stagnation hypothesis (see his Peterson Institute talk); 4:10 – discussion of Tyler Cowen’s and Robert Gordon’s views (see Cowen’s lecture on Inequality, productivity stagnation and Moore’s Law and check out Robert Gordon’s book The Rise and Fall of American Growth); 5:45 – On Stiglitz’s attack on Summers and secular stagnation (see Stiglitz’s article The myth of secular stagnation); 7:30 – reference to “...
Highlights of Economics Explained in 2019
December 26, 2019 13:55 - 34 minutes - 25.9 MBUse these timestamps to jump right to the highlights: 3:55 – Quiggin on the relevance of the two lessons in economics for responding to climate change; 8:55 – Craig Lawrence on cost-benefit analysis; 12:20 – Di Johnson on personal finance, particularly buying a house or unit; 15:05 – Brendan Markey-Towler on behavioural economics; 17:50 – Nicholas Gruen on digital public goods illustrated with 23andMe example; 21:45 – Andreas Chai on Randomized Controlled Trials in poverty alleviatio...
Randomised controlled trials & economic development
December 18, 2019 14:05 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MBThis episode’s guest Associate Professor Andreas Chai is Discipline Head of Economics and Business Statistics in the Griffith University Business School. He has previously worked at the Australian Productivity Commission and the Australia Treasury. Andreas is well-placed to speak about economic development, as he has consulted to international organisations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation on economic development issues. Use these timestamps to jump right into ...
The Gender Pay Gap with Dr Leonora Risse
December 11, 2019 14:05 - 58 minutes - 41.4 MBThis episode’s guest Dr Leonora Risse is currently a fellow in the Women and Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to taking up her Kennedy School fellowship this year, Leonora was a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. As we discuss toward the end of the episode, Leonora has been a very active board member of the Australian Women in Economics Network, which is affiliated with the Economic Society of Australia. Leonor...
Multinational and Personal Tax Avoidance and Evasion
December 04, 2019 14:16 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBThis episode’s guest is Professor Pascalis Raimondos, head of the School of Economics and Finance at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and an expert on international taxation and trade issues. Use these timestamps to jump right into Gene and Pascalis’s conversation: 1:45 – are tax avoidance and tax evasion a major concern? 3:40 – thin capitalisation as a way multinationals can minimise tax 5:00 – transfer pricing as another way 10:25 - having a lot of intangible capital (e....
The Media and Digital Disruption with Rebecca Archer
November 27, 2019 14:05 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBThis episode’s guest is Rebecca Archer, Director of Connect Media Training. Australian listeners may know Rebecca as Rebecca Hyam, former ABC finance reporter. Rebecca still works on a casual basis at ABC Brisbane in addition to running her media training company. Of course, views expressed in this podcast are Rebecca’s personal views, and should not necessarily be attributed to the ABC. As well as working for Australia’s national broadcaster, Rebecca has worked for the original public broad...
Economics in Two Lessons with John Quiggin
November 20, 2019 14:05 - 32 minutes - 23.8 MBThis episode features Professor John Quiggin, author of Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work so Well, and Why they Can Fail So Badly. The book was published earlier this year by Princeton University Press. Economics Explained host Gene Tunny has reviewed the book on his blog (see Quiggin's Economics in Two Lessons should be on ECON101 reading lists for decades to come) and he was very happy to speak with Professor Quiggin about his book on the podcast. In addition to his own review...
Job platforms and recruitment agencies
November 13, 2019 14:05 - 37 minutes - 32.3 MBThis episode’s guest is Chris Poole, a Senior Consultant at Frontline Health Recruitment, an Australian recruitment agency specialising in the health sector. Frontline Health Recruitment is on the same floor as Economics Explained host Gene Tunny’s business Adept Economics in the Johnson Hotel in Spring Hill, Brisbane. Highlights of this episode include: excellent tips from Chris on how job seekers can maximise their chances of getting a job (from 5:05); the importance of LinkedIn in the...
Behavioural Economics with Dr Brendan Markey-Towler
November 06, 2019 14:05 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBDr Brendan Markey-Towler is a Senior Consultant at Behaviour Innovation, a Brisbane-based consultancy firm specialising in behavioural change which has undertaken a range of interesting projects include Project Cane Changer. Prior to joining Behavioural Innovation, Brendan researched and taught economics at the University of Queensland and University College London. He is the author of An Architecture of the Mind: A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life, published by Rout...
Innovation & digital public goods with Nicholas Gruen
October 30, 2019 14:05 - 56 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this episode, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses innovation and digital public goods with his colleague Dr Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics. Nicholas is a well-known Australian economist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Australia’s former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner once described Nicholas as “Australia’s foremost public intellectual.” Many listeners will know of Nicholas’s work, through his published articles, reports and blog posts at Club Troppo and the Mandar...
Personal Finance
October 23, 2019 20:36 - 53 minutes - 42 MBMany people struggle with managing money. For example, last month, Australian ABC News reported “1.9 million Australians are struggling with credit card debts” and that the average Australian credit card debt is more than $3,000. To discuss personal finance, Economics Explained host Gene Tunny invited Griffith University lecturer Dr Di Johnson onto the program. Issues for discussion included: Credit cards – friend or foe? Is it ok to borrow money to buy a car? Is rent money dead money? ...
Money on the Screen - Film Industry Economics
October 18, 2019 14:05 - 32 minutes - 27.5 MBEconomics Explained host Gene Tunny discusses the economics of the film industry with his good friend Tim Hughes, who spent ten years working in the film industry in the UK and Australia. Tim worked as a crew member on TV shows such as Peak Practice, The Bill, and Coronation Street, and on film productions including Tomb Raider, Scooby-Doo, and Swimming Upstream. Currently, Tim’s a Brisbane-based businessman who’s had a range of ventures over the years. His latest business is Urban Ergo, a ...
The Gig Economy
October 13, 2019 14:05 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThe gig economy benefits consumers through lower prices and greater choice. Check out how many local restaurants are participating in Uber Eats for example. And obviously the gig economy benefits the platform businesses which have multi-billion-dollar valuations. But does the gig economy benefit the workers, the people working gig-by-gig? This question and others were considered in a conversation I had on 12 October with my good friend Darren Brady Nelson, a professional economist...
The Gig Economy with Darren Brady Nelson
October 13, 2019 14:05 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThe gig economy benefits consumers through lower prices and greater choice. Check out how many local restaurants are participating in Uber Eats for example. And obviously the gig economy benefits the platform businesses which have multi-billion-dollar valuations. But does the gig economy benefit the workers, the people working gig-by-gig? This question and others were considered in a conversation I had on 12 October with my good friend Darren Brady Nelson, a professional economist who has ...
Economics of Infrastructure - Part 2
October 07, 2019 21:26 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBCraig Lawrence has three decades of experience as a professional economist and has advised on a wide range of infrastructure projects in Australia, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Part 2 of our conversation covers, among other things: public private partnerships or PPPs, their pros and their cons; challenges in infrastructure provision in emerging economies; and the geopolitics of infrastructure (e.g. Chinese takeover of Sri Lankan port).