Cameron Murray
An economist specialising in property and urban development, environmental economics, rent-seeking and corruption.
New book — Game of Mates: How favours bleed the nation.
Writes for MacroBusiness, Evonomics, and maintains an internationally renowned personal blog called Fresh Economic Thinking.
Cameron's recent articles
16 August 2022
Paul Frijters & Cameron Murray: How mates and grey corruption rig the political game
If you were a powerful politician, there is a good chance you would make decisions that favour your mates.
13 August 2020
Our states are crying poor. They wouldn’t if they charged for rezoning like the ACT (The Conversation, August 4 2020)
Throughout Australia, when land is rezoned from industrial to high-rise residential, a charge is levied to help fund the required infrastructure.