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Fresh Economic Thinking

Cameron Murray is famous for questioning sacred cows and conventional wisdoms of both left and right. We chat about Cameron"s latest Twitter battle and then delve into a controversy. Wide-ranging analysis - no topic out of bounds - inequality, regulation, housing, superannuation, lockdowns, tax, war, the meaning of life. www.fresheconomicthinking.com

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FET #68: Mark Changizi on the Hidden Logic Behind...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2026/01/18

During the COVID panic one of the sane voices was congitive scientist Mark Changizi. He saw the resulting panic as an emergent social and cultural phenomenon, and went as far as to sue the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for directing social media companies to censor what they deemed as misinformation. In this conversation, Mark talks of his intellectual journey, from mathematician and physicist to congitive scientist. He describes the overarching view of human perception and

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44:09

Supply starts when speculation ends: Searching for a...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2026/01/04

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a coherent way of understanding the economics of housing supply?You might be surprised, given the confidence of the prognostications of public commentators, that most don’t have a broadly accepted economic theory of why homes are built. It’s all ad hoc and often contradictory.Here, Tim Helm walks through the main empirical patterns that need to be explained by our economic theory of housing supply, and steps through why most current approaches are a poor fit. A good

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71:12

FET #67: The story of building a new academy for free...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/12/15

Previously, I have described an educational experiment happening in a castle in Belgium, called Academia Libera Mentis (ALM). It is run by my friend and co-author, Paul Frijters, with his wife Erika Turkstra, and alongside Gigi Foster and many others. In this episode, we discuss the story of this endeavour, as told in the upcoming book Minds that Dare. You can read about the trials and tribulations of this educational endeavour at the ALM substack. Check out the ALM website and the courses

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90:26

FET #66: Energy, economics, and policy blindspots...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/12/07

A long chat with power engineer Ben Beattie about Australia’s energy conversation, some of the muddled economics and arguments in favour of privatisation, public provision, and more. Check out Ben’s Baseload Podcast here.As always, please like, share, comment, and subscribe. Thanks for your support. You can find Fresh Economic Thinking on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.Theme: Happy Swing by Serge Quadrado Music—Creative Commons Licence CC BY-NC 4.0Interested in learning more? Fresh Economic

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28:38

FET #65: Reaction to "There is no housing crisis"

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/11/23

Is Australia’s housing market REALLY functioning normally? Regular co-host Jonathan Gadir pushes back on my recent statements about the housing market doing exactly what we should expect it to do in a conversation with Josh Szeps at his Uncomfortable Conversations podcast. I also respond to Steve Keen’s idea that the secret to lower home prices is regulating access to credit, such as with tighter rules limiting loan sizes to a function of current rent or value, which he expresses in this video. My

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43:16

FET #64: Woke university cancels man for health...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/11/09

James Nuzzo’s sports science and health research shows the gap between perception and reality when it comes to gender issues. This research, and especially, his public comments about his various studies, got him cancelled and squeezed out by Edith Cowan University. You can read about it here in detail.As someone with an interest in both the pursuit of truth who is frustrated when the public conversation is at odds with the data, this topic is of interest. For example, few would realise that women

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79:02

Economist Cameron Murray on Housing

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/10/29

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44:05

FET #63: Is Canada's housing market a glimpse into...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/10/26

Would you believe that the same stories told in Australian housing debates about a lack of supply were dominant in Toronto, Canada, right up until the bust?I speak with Canadian real estate analyst and broker John Pasalis about how the market has changed in the past few years in Canada—from a speculative mania, to a sudden stop, to a new slow grind. Amongst it all, new apartment construction has plummeted, banks are facing numerous financing risks, and the outlook is soft. We also pick up the

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24:09

FET #62: Does economic complexity mean good jobs and...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/10/12

Regular co-host Jonathan Gadir pushes back on my claim that Australia’s economic complexity is fine. Can a more complex economy generate better job choices and higher wages? Is it really okay to outsource the production of fundamental ingredients to a modern economy to other nations? Is Cameron just spouting nonsense neoclassical economics?Tune in to hear these questions answered, and find the original article here for paid FET subscribers:As always, please like, share, comment, and subscribe

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106:25

FET #61: How investment returns shape housing markets...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/09/28

Too often, the public debate about housing focuses on costs and ignores investment returns to property owners. Mike Fellman was an economist at Freddie Mac and is now a property investor. He explains in this conversation how important the investment dynamics in housing are for understanding what gets built where. Find Mike on Twitter/X here and read his “thread of threads” that explains many of the misperceptions about the financial drivers of housing markets here. As always, please like, share,

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20:48

FET #60: The shakedown business

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/09/14

How do organisations that emerge to help people end up degrading over time and becoming a plain old shakedown?That’s the topic I discuss with regular co-host Jonathan Gadir. Although we don’t mention it, my book Rigged, co-authored with Paul Frijters, explains many of the economic mechanisms behind the degradation of institutions into what could be described as a rent-seeking mafia. As always, please like, share, comment, and subscribe. Thanks for your support. You can find Fresh Economic Thinking

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54:04

FET #59: Unlearning Economics explains the rent...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/08/24

Will rent control destroy your city? Or is this a slogan economists use to signal their tribal allegiance?Cahal Moran, aka Unlearning Economics, discusses his intellectual journey into economics and the discovery of many shortcomings of how economics is taught and practised. Cahal’s latest Current Affairs article is called Rent Control is Fine, Actually. Watch all his YouTube videos here, and find his terrific video on rent control we discussed here. As always, please like, share, comment, and

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52:54

FET #56: How to beat the "cost of living crisis" and...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/08/11

With all the cost-of-living crisis talk these days, you might wonder if it is possible for young Aussies to get ahead financially. But there is a group of people out there winning the financial game of life with their approach to financial independence. The perfect guest to discuss personal financial habits is Matt, who runs the Aussie Firebug website, where he documents his journey of to financial independence, retire early (FIRE). It is well worth checking out if financial independence is on your

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59:52

FET #57: Is it crazy to tax unrealised gains in...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/06/09

Taxpayers Alliance Chief Economist John Humphreys joins the FET podcast to talk all things tax. Is it possible to tax unrealised gains, as is proposed on superannuation accounts over $3 million in value? Maybe. But why bother doing it when it mostly changes the timing of taxation rather than the revenue? We speculate as to whether it is a daring political manoeuvre—propose something you know your opposition will find outrageous to trick them into arguing for exactly the tax setting you actually

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43:33

FET #56: Why does Ben Phillips reckon there is no...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/06/02

Given the Australian media’s obsession with the housing crisis, it would come as a shock to many that the share of after-tax disposable income spent on rent by renter households is lower in 2025 than it has been for most of the last decade.But that’s what ANU Professor Ben Phillips found in his latest research on rental affordability (you can find it here or download it below).In today’s FET video podcast, I chat with Ben about this surprising data and how we can make sense of it in light of current

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108:24

FET #55: Daniel Hess on whether housing density...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/05/19

There is an interesting debate taking place in urbanist circles. Is more density good for families because it helps reduce housing costs, or bad for families because it creates a lifestyle and environment that is not conducive to large families?Indeed, we might consider changing our policies and regulations based on what we think is the answer to this question. But do we have a reasonable answer?Daniel Hess runs the More Births Substack and is on Twitter @MoreBirths. Daniel has taken up the case

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37:44

FET #54: Aussie political elections just work

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/05/12

Was voting easy and efficient for you? This is something we should all appreciate. Australia’s electoral commission makes voting easy. Our preferential system improves on first-past-the-post single-member electoral systems. And all of this happens quietly and quickly for $30 per vote, thanks to the Australian Electoral Commission.Together with Jonathan Gadir, we riff on the good, the bad, and the ugly of elections. As always, please like, share, comment, and subscribe. Thanks for your support. You

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35:44

FET #53: How foreign aid fails and why scrapping...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/04/07

Anna Samson has had a decade-long career in aid, was a US State Department-funded Fulbright Scholar, and has a PhD in international relations and American foreign policy.In this episode we discuss the inadvertent economic and political outcomes of foreign aid on receiving nations. What surprised me was Anna’s view on the scale of the rent-seeking across the aid industry and the transformation of the aid project into one of strategic military and economic interests rather than one of

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73:46

FET #52: Can we save 300 lives and $20 billion a year...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/03/24

Richard Tooth has a plan—save 300 lives a year on Australian roads. How? By using economic ideas to align risks and incentives better.Take a look at the chart below. People who die on Australia’s roads are young. Preventing a road death would save 40-50 years of life on average. That’s big. Cancer treatments typically save 4-10 life years, then we get five to ten times the life gains from preventing a road death as many deaths from diseases. I learnt from Richard that people will change their

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76:34

FET #51: Paul Frijters on the CORONA PANIC DEBACLE...

Fresh Economic Thinking ·

2025/03/10

Paul Frijters runs Academia Libera Mentis from a castle in Belgium. After a distinguished academic career in Australia and Europe, he is creating an academic oasis in the Ardennes for thinking, learning and growing. I’ve written before about this project.Today, we reflect on five years of the corona panic debacle, the economic and social fallout we are still experiencing, and what we could have known early on but refused to collectively acknowledge due to the madness of crowds. We discuss in detail

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