by Evatt Foundation | Jul 17, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 16
After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital in the Twenty-First Century’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the...
by Francis Markham, Nicholas Biddle | Jul 10, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 16
With affordable houses increasingly out of reach, wage growth slow and household debt high, Australians are certainly feeling poor. But how do they compare to their neighbours? New Census data confirms there’s a lot of variability in income. The Census breaks...
by Katherine Cross | Jun 15, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 16
The concept of ‘the Big Lie’—a brazen untruth pushed so relentlessly in mass media that it’s eventually mistaken for truth—is hardly novel. As is the case with so many other wretched stratagems of its ilk, capitalism got there first with the PR technique known as FUD:...
by Fintan O'Toole | Jun 12, 2017 | Issue 3, Journal, News, Volume 16
To understand the sensational outcome of the British election, one must ask a basic question. What happens when phony populism collides with the real thing?Last year’s triumph for Brexit has often been paired with the rise of Donald Trump as evidence of a populist...
by Saul Eslake. | Jun 6, 2017 | Issue 3, News, Volume 16
With the release of the March quarter national accounts, there have been reports the Australian economy could break the Netherlands’ “world record” for continuous growth. But there are three problems with this assertion.It’s now been 103 quarters (25 years and 9...
by Evatt Foundation | Apr 4, 2017 | News
Renowned for her composure, Labor’s deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, let fly in the House of Representatives on Thursday 30 March. Plibersek was talking about Margarita, a cleaner who was in the public gallery and had met members of the Labor Caucus that day, and...
