The following is arranged by key categories of posts. For a chronological listing, go here.

Class and Capitalism

• Technofeudalism – Some Thoughts to Add to the Argument April 1, 2024
• Inflation – what to do depends on your starting point November 12, 2023
• Debt, Interest Payments and Choices: A Surprise in the SA State Budget July 22, 2023
• What Level of Unemployment is Acceptable? Theory and Policy January 13, 2023
• “Hard Labour”: A Review of Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality January 1, 2023
• Industrial Relations, Income Flows and Inequality December 4, 2022
• Snapshot of Inequality – South Australia and National September 30, 2022
• The Labour Share: No Paradise for Workers September 8, 2022
• Class In Australia: Everything and Nothing? March 8, 2022
• Understanding Class: Reflections on Erik Olin Wright’s Multi-layered Synthesis February 1, 2022
• Understanding the Digital Economy: Two Books, Two Views November 7, 2021

Inequality Research

• Compare the Pair: Income Inequality on the Same Income January 11, 2024
• Debt, Interest Payments and Choices: A Surprise in the SA State Budget July 22, 2023
• The Australian Inequality Index June 6, 2023
• Extended Income and Inequality: Different Data, Surprising Results April 16, 2023
• Industrial Relations, Income Flows and Inequality December 4, 2022
• Inequality Alarm Bells for South Australia October 6, 2022
• Snapshot of Inequality – South Australia and National September 30, 2022
• South Australia’s Small Gender Pay Gap: Is it Good News? September 11, 2022
• The Labour Share: No Paradise for Workers September 8, 2022
• Household Wealth Inequality August 28, 2022
• Regional South Australia – Inequality at the Peripheries August 18, 2022
• The super-rich don’t live here: Inequality in South Australia August 14, 2022
• Inequality between Australian States: Household Income August 8, 2022
• The Gender Wage Share: History and Implications January 17, 2022
• Massively Underestimating Inequality? The Problem of Housing Incomes January 4, 2022
• The Gender Wage Share – a $200bn gap November 26, 2021

Housing

• Silly Housing Statistics 3: The CPI – Official silliness, or just misunderstood and misused data? March 22, 2025
• Silly Housing Statistics 2: I am Priced Out of a renting a beachside house March 8, 2025
• Silly Housing Statistics: Is it more expensive to rent in Adelaide than in Melbourne? March 3, 2025
• Compare the Pair: Income Inequality on the Same Income January 11, 2024
• The Landlord Myth and Housing Supply April 30, 2023
• Who is providing low-cost rental housing? July 6, 2022
• Rental Affordability Help: Comparing Public Housing and Commonwealth Rent Assistance May 8, 2022
• Massively Underestimating Inequality? The Problem of Housing Incomes January 4, 2022
• Talking about Public Housing: Political Economy, Neoliberalism or Welfare? December 26, 2021

Unemployment and Inflation

• Energy Bill Relief and the Inflation Dragon: A Fairy Tale? April 30, 2024
• Premier Malinauskas’ “Full Employment” – a dangerous definition February 22, 2024
• Inflation – what to do depends on your starting point November 12, 2023
• Did We Ever Have Full Employment? March 5, 2023
• What Level of Unemployment is Acceptable? Theory and Policy January 13, 2023
• Unusual Unemployment Statistics: Highlighting Long-term Unemployment January 5, 2023

Energy

• Social Services and Energy Distribution: The Treatment of Surpluses and Profits in Pseudo Markets September 8, 2024
• Energy Bill Relief and the Inflation Dragon: A Fairy Tale? April 30, 2024
• 3G Phones, Energy Smart Meters and the Neoliberal Fantasy April 17, 2024
• Revisiting Energy Supernormal Profits – A Tale of Two Graphs December 3, 2023
• Beyond Neoliberal Energy – A Thought Experiment October 28, 2022
• Blowing the Whistle on Energy Network Supernormal Profits October 21, 2022

Challenges to Charity and Charities

• Social Services and Energy Distribution: The Treatment of Surpluses and Profits in Pseudo Markets September 8, 2024
• If Culture Is Not An Industry, What About Social Service? July 6, 2024
• Thomas Piketty, Councils of Social Service and Equality Advocacy December 25, 2021
• Proposal to Remove Tax Deductibility for Donations to Charities November 12, 2021

Uncategorised

• The Political Economy of Lucy Jordan February 2, 2025
• The Vegemite Curve: A curve becomes an index becomes a policy October 16, 2024
• State Tax Reform: A South Australian Perspective July 16, 2024
• If Culture Is Not An Industry, What About Social Service? July 6, 2024
• Campaigning for Concessions: Reflections on Success and the Bigger Picture June 20, 2024
• 3G Phones, Energy Smart Meters and the Neoliberal Fantasy April 17, 2024
• Taxpayers Hiding in Bathrooms: Arts Funding and the Public Good March 6, 2024
• Who Pays for Public Services? August 10, 2023
• Do we ever really know what is in federal or state budgets? June 22, 2023
• “Alarm Bells” or “Business as Usual” state budget February 15, 2023