Fewer students are studying economics at school, and few of those go onto an economics course at uni. That’s a problem.

People complaining about housing affordability tend to blame the federal government. In fact, it’s the state governments that ...

Much of what’s said about government spending will be influenced by partisanship, ideology, self-interest and populism.

A protest vote on the cost of living will achieve little. The best election outcome would be a minority government dependent on the support of those who get the urgency of climate action.

No profession spends more time contemplating the future than economists. Are they any good at it? Well, no, not really.

Ross Gittins is a legend of Australian journalism. But his column on Monday was a shocker. I guess even legends can be wrong.

Economists desperately want to convince themselves the world is as simple as C + I + G + (X - M). That’s what generations of ...

Ross Gittins gives his normal, intelligent, perceptive and analytic take on the election (Comment, 29/1) and explains the true reasons for our fears about cost of living, but outs climate change as ...

Readers respond to Peter Dutton’s claims that he can save money by taking advantage of nuclear energy and with cuts to the ...