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.
Idea of a fair society taken for a ride
Ross Gittins Australians aren't racist - and even if some people are, you and I certainly aren't.
Idea of a fair society taken for a ride
Ross Gittins Australians aren't racist - and even if some people are, you and I certainly aren't.
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Taxpayers can be freed from rising crime costs
Ross Gittins Although many types of crime have been declining over the past decade, there's still far too much of it.
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A warning as market pipes tune in America
Ross Gittins Just as it's taking the world a lot longer to recover from the global financial crisis than we initially expected, so it's taking a lot longer than we might have expected for voters and their...
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Lucky Country's had a lot more going for it than just chance
Ross Gittins It drew little comment, but the centrepiece of Julia Gillard's white paper on the Asian century was her target of raising Australia's standard of living - income per person - from the 13th highest in...
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Lucky country also blessed with skilful management
Ross Gittins It drew little comment, but the centrepiece of Julia Gillard's white paper on the Asian century was her target of raising Australia's standard of living - income per person - from the 13th highest in...
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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.
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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Prudence is back - and it's about time, too
Ross Gittins One of the first lessons economists teach us is that the economy moves in cycles of boom and bust. A second, trickier lesson is that although most of the changes going on in the economy at any moment...
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Dear prudence, you've come back to stay
Ross Gittins It's better for businesses to adapt to the way the world now works.
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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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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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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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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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...
