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PETER MARTIN. How billionaires get uber-rich at our expense- A REPOST from June 1 2017
“The rich are different from you and me” the saying goes. “They have more money“. But that’s not the only way they are different. In the updated Financial Review Rich List released on Friday, 45 of the richest 50 Australians are men. And they are … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Cameron Murphy, Game of Mates, lobbyists, Paul Frijters, Peter-Martin, political influence, rent-seekers, The Age, vested interests
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JOHN MENADUE. How the gaming of land rezoning by vested interests keeps housing unaffordable.
After Easter, we will be posting a ten-part series on making housing more affordable for all. One of the problems in housing affordability is the political muscle of some developers in gaming rezoning and reaping substantial capital gains from property. … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Cameron Murray, corruption in land rezoning, lobbyists, Michael Pascoe, Paul Frijters, SMH, The Conversation
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Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters. This budget … will favour the rent-seekers.
Long before the release of French economist Thomas Piketty’s smash bestseller, it was recognised by social scientists that income inequality in developed countries had been rising for a while. Economists’ stock-in-trade explanation for this trend was that people whose … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters, rent-seekers, The Conversation
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