The Gillard Government’s Clean Energy Future plan signifies that the game is up for the free rider’s polluting our planet. The Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne of carbon for July 1 2012 – June 30 2013 sends a clear message that polluters must pay. In this age of compromise politics, the industry lobbyists who [...]

Renegade Economists Podcast 188 Subscribe to the free podcast here Professor Peter Newman (Curtin Uni) joins us for an in depth discussion on the peak oil era and the cities we will need. We examine the report he co-authored with Trubka and Bilsborough – Assessing the Costs of Alternative Development Paths in Australian Cities. (PDF [...]

An interesting report by the Fels Institute of Government (University of Pennsylvania) was quoted in Yes Magazine: … [We] found that within 1/4 mile of one of Philadelphia’s 54 branches, the value of a home rose by $9,630. Overall, Philadelphia’s public libraries added $698 million to home values—which in turn generated an additional $18.5 million [...]

With the federal election campaign today seeing Opposition Leader Tony Abbot promoting Infrastructure bonds with a 10% tax concession for investors, there is an urgent need for better understanding of infrastructure financing. Abbot’s plan should be written off as the interest rate spread between Australia and the rest of the world is significant enough not [...]

Frank de Jong, Green Part of Ontario Leader Frank toured Australia this time last year for the True Cost Economics Forum. He wrote this piece in lieu of exciting developments in Canada. For the first time to my knowledge, Toronto will be collecting economic rent to pay for infrastructure — in this case to redevelop [...]