Economic Policies
The Nobel Prize winning economist James Tobin once said that the study of economics “offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind”. One of the ways in which it does this is through the implementation of economic policy that helps to ameliorate boom-and-bust cycles, reduces unemployment, contains inflation or lifts people’s living standards in sustainable ways.
A Pre-Election Western Australia Chart Pack
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, The Australian Economy | 10th March 2021A set of charts exploring the unusual structure of Western Australia’s economy; and how it became Australia’s richest state as a result of the China-fuelled ‘resources boom’ of 2005-2015, before falling into recession after the end of the ‘investment phase’ of that boom, and how having squandered a good deal of the revenue bonanza thrown […]
Interview with Tasmania Talks’ Mike O’loughlin
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Tasmania | 16th February 2021Saul talks to Tasmania Talks’ Mike O’loughlin on 16th February, 2021 about “arriving in a foreign country”, Jobseeker payment, Mid-Year Review of Tasmania Budget, and the lifting of compulsory superannuation rate.
Media coverage of my report on replacements for the Spirits of Tasmania ferries
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, News, Publications, Tasmania | 27th November 2020Saul Eslake stands by Spirits of Tasmania replacement report Follow up interview with Tasmania Talks‘ Aaron Stephens News, Publications, Tasmania | 27th November 2020 Interview with Triple M Hobart on ‘Choices and Consequences’ Interview with Triple M Hobart‘s Brian Carlton: The Spoonman News, Publications, Tasmania | 24th November 2020 Interview with Tasmania Talks on ‘Choices and Consequences’ Interview with Tasmania Talks‘ Aaron Stephens News, Publications, Tasmania | […]
Interview with ABC The Drum about compulsory super contribution
Economic Policies, News, Publications | 23rd November 2020Interview with ABC the Drum ‘s Ellen Fanning on 23rd November 2020: why I changed my mind about the compulsory super contribution
The Economic Consequences of Misguided Localism
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies, Tasmania | 22nd November 2020An analysis of the potential economic consequences of the Tasmanian Government’s decision (taken, it would seem, under pressure from the Australian federal government) to over-ride the decision of the board of its state-owned shipping company, TT-Line, to purchase replacements for its two Bass Strait ferries, the Spirits of Tasmania, from Europe, in favour of having […]
I changed my mind on increasing the compulsory superannuation contribution rate
Economic Policies, Publications | 22nd November 2020Article by the Australian Financial Review’s Jonathan Shapiro and Tom McIlroy published 22nd November 2020
Interview with ABC PM Radio on compulsory superannuation contribution
Economic Policies, Publications, Topics | 22nd November 2020Interview with ABC PM Radio on Monday 23rd November 2020 about why I changed my mind about compulsory superannuation contribution
Tasmania’s Budget Papers are a long way from being “Best in Show”
Economic Policies, Tasmania | 19th November 2020A comparison of the quantity and quality of the information and analysis provided in this year’s Tasmanian Budget Papers with that provided in the Budget Papers of the other jurisdictions which have presented their Budgets in the past few weeks – Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and (this week) New South Wales, as […]