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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Food boom with a twist turns screws on farmers
Ross Gittins The first thing to realise about the rise of Asia is that our farmers are about to join our miners in the winners' circle.
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Carbon tax won't hurt much but we don't want to know
Ross Gittins When psychologists study those sects that predict the end of the world on a certain day, they find the leaders rarely willing to admit they were wrong and their true believers rarely willing to admit...
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Shift minds on a tax? Unlikely
Ross Gittins People who feel carbon tax is terrible will continue to think this way, whatever the reality.
Ross Garnaut
To a morning sunrise of raised expectation and lowered fear
Ross Gittins When we wake up tomorrow, Australia will have carbon pricing. How will its effects compare with those expected?
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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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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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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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Carbon price is no fix-all
Ross Gittins Gillard slashes sundry green programs, wrongly believing a price on carbon will suffice.
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Suits us to be deluded on climate
Ross Gittins We justify doing nothing on emissions by insisting that others make cuts first. They have. We're the laggards.
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Revolution of the thinking voter turns politics green
Ross Gittins Sorry but I'm not convinced a hung parliament is a terrible thing. It may end up being a good thing.
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Rudd's new challenge: fix schools
Ross Gittins I guess it's not a correct thing to think these days, but when I'm slaving over a hot chopping board in the kitchen it often pops into my head: a woman's work is never done.
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Four big bugs threaten our comfort zone
Ross Gittins Two weeks ago the Secretary to the Treasury, Dr Ken Henry, delivered a momentous speech on ''The Shape of Things to Come'' for Australia.
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Stuck in a glut, with dopey cavemen calling the shots
Ross Gittins Has it occurred to you that many of the problems we face in the developed world occur because humans have overtaken their evolution? If it hasn't, don't feel bad - it hasn't occurred to the economics...
