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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Opportunity knocks, but the door has to open both ways
Ross Gittins When governments make grand policy unveilings, as Julia Gillard has with her white paper on the Asian Century, it's terribly tempting for people in jobs like mine to sit back and criticise.
It's official, the boom is not over
Ross Gittins Have you noticed how joyfully the media trumpet the bad news they seek out so assiduously? The latest is that the resources boom is finally busting. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
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The boom has bust? It's only just started...
Ross Gittins Have you noticed how joyfully the media trumpet the bad news they seek out so assiduously?
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If reform isn't balanced, it's self-interest
Ross Gittins Do efficiency and progress necessarily mean we have better lives all round?
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Reform is a delicate act of balance
Ross Gittins A lot of the problems the nation struggles with and argues over boil down to the considerable potential for conflict between what economists summarise as ''equity'' and ''efficiency''.
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Change is the price of affluence
Ross Gittins When I was a kid marbles were the rage. When you played at home with your brothers and sisters, mum made sure that, whoever won, everyone got their marbles back when the game was over.
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This is no Sunday school: prosperity comes with pain
Ross Gittins Discord and suffering are the price we pay for getting richer.
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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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Our economy has a lot more going for it than minerals
Ross Gittins Australia's resources boom is just one part of its sustained success.
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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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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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How the puny Pacific Peso became a pumped-up dollar
Ross Gittins Last week a picture of Australia's Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens, appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, a rare occurrence.
