The interface of economic and social policy by day. Metal drumming and snobbery by night. MPolEc USyd. Views my own. Retweets not endorsement.
Mar 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It’s like the people who designed HECS and the people defending it now forgot that university already has an individual, regressive cost (forgone income), a society-wide benefit (increased productivity), and that the rich already don’t pay to go to uni. (Their parents stump up.)
When we look at countries that *actually exist right now*, that have free or very cheap university, do we seriously think that’s making those countries less equitable?
May 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Thread re: today's leaked @NCCCgovau report (drawing on the @CntrFutureWork's *Powering Onwards* report on renewable manufacturing):
1. We don’t specifically need gas (or coal) to power any major industrial process
Oct 17, 2018 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
Thread!
@TheAusInstitute’s #RevenueSummit A post-Keynesian/#MMT perspective – questioning the premise of the Summit. In short, a washout – putatively sensible people nodding sagely at the repetition of neoliberal talking points.
#auspol#ausecon 1/12
Contra *every single speaker* at the #RevenueSummit, fiat money is not a scarce commodity that the government needs from us, it’s a tool that the government creates ex nihilo and *we, the populace, need it*. 2/12
