Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is economics editor of the SMH and an economic columnist for The Age. His books include Gittins' Guide to Economics, Gittinomics and The Happy Economist.
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Here's a view of the world at 2050 - if you dare to look
Ross Gittins The rising demands on our planet's resources require policy action.
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Human cost of inaction incalculable
Ross Gittins Do you ever wonder how the environment - the global ecosystem - will cope with the continuing growth in the world population plus the rapid economic development of China, India and various other...
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Don't judge government by its size
Ross Gittins In the early 1980s, not long after I got into the economic commentary business, Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were riding high and the great enthusiasm of the moment was the need for Smaller...
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An ugly truth: it's time we raised taxes
Ross Gittins Smaller government means squeezing public services spending.
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Think smart is way ahead
Ross Gittins THE fall in the Herald-Lateral Economics index of wellbeing is telling us Australia has come to the end of its good luck and from now on further improvement in our wellbeing will rely on good...
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The bad news is there's good news on falling crime rates
Ross Gittins The figures are dropping but most people find that the truth is no fun.
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Reporting crime drop just doesn't pay, it seems
Ross Gittins Wow. Did you see the latest figures for the falling crime rate? Pretty good, eh?
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Education success is about more than money
Ross Gittins Much smarter ways of improving teaching could deliver big gains for a small cost.
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Better teaching could make our students the world's best
Ross Gittins Thank goodness for that. David Gonski and his committee have produced a comprehensive review of school funding without setting off a bitter debate between the proponents of government and...
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Happiness: surely that's not all there is to the meaning of life
Ross Gittins How about the meaning of life? People forget relationships are the core of our wellbeing.
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Happiness is a two-way street shared with your fellow man
Ross Gittins Fed up with all the wrangling and speculation over who should be leading the Labor Party? Want something more substantial? How about the meaning of life - that weighty enough for you?
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Doom and gloom? Things aren't nearly as bad as you think
Ross Gittins Economists don't have a good record on forecasting what will happen to the economy.
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We're still holding steady, even as jobs go
Ross Gittins Economists don't have a good record on forecasting what will happen to the economy, but here's a prediction I make with great confidence: whatever happens, it won't be as bad as you think it is.
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Why health cover needs no subsidies
Ross Gittins Despite the untiring efforts of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to make themselves seem poles apart in their policies - he/she is hopeless, I'm really good - the ideological gap between the two sides...
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Damned lies and economic modelling
Ross Gittins One of my resolutions this year is to spend more time trying to prevent lobby groups from using dodgy economic ''modelling'' to mislead my readers.
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Why Darwin might be the real father of economics
Ross Gittins Aask economists who is the father of economics and almost all of them will say Adam Smith. But a new book makes the amazing claim the true father is Charles Darwin.
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There's so much more to wealth than money
Ross Gittins The figures for the growth in gross domestic product were out again this week, but for some time I have been concerned about our national fixation on GDP.
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Breakdown in relations is everyone's business
Ross Gittins I get to meet a lot of famous and interesting people in my job, but few have had more influence on me than Dr Michael Schluter, the social thinker, social entrepreneur and founder of Britain's...
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Not all that different but clearly better
Ross Gittins This is the I-solemnly-promise-to-be-tough budget. Its nasties come as an IOU. When the whole state had its tongue hanging out for deliverance from the Carr-Iemma-Rees-Keneally government, some...
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Tough, but not tough enough as maiden budget pulls its punches
Ross Gittins This budget may not seem tough, but it's tougher than it looks. It's a promise to cut government spending programs over the next four years, but with no details.
