Mining's economic contribution not as big as you might think
With Malcolm Turnbull desperate to keep burning coal for electricity, just how important is the mining industry to our economy?
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Ross Gittins
Ross Gittins is economics editor of the SMH and an economic columnist for The Age. His books include Gittins' Guide to Economics, Gittinomics and The Happy Economist.
Lord save us from being governed by bankers
With Our Glad Berejiklian - the archetypal girl who works harder than the boys - replacing pin-up boy Mike Baird as premier of NSW, should the citizens of other states be envious? Don't be too sure.
Can't find a pattern? It's probably probability
It's the last (unofficial) holiday weekend of summer before the new year really gets down to business on Monday. So let's have some fun. Try yourself on this simple quiz.
Face time with strangers can boost economy
Human contact is an important part of health and our prosperity.
Two centuries of economic development courtesy of the Industrial Revolution
One of the small pleasures of my year was watching the deft political manoeuvrings of Thomas Cromwell in the TV miniseries of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
Knowledge, not resources, driving economic growth
Some economists worry the world economy isn't growing fast enough. It's slowing down and reaching the point of "secular stagnation".
Mining makes pollies confused about demand and supply
Our politicians on both sides have terrible trouble working out how supply works.
Unemployment, take a step back for the big picture
It is possible to make sense of what's happening in the labour market, but only if you follow a few rules.
Politicised Treasury bites own tail, covers for Turnbull
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen is right: One of the Abbott-Turnbull government's various acts of economic vandalism is its politicisation of the once-proud federal Treasury.
Recession? Look out your window
What would economic race-calling be without its little excitements? As you may possibly have heard, this week's news is that the economy has contracted - shrunk, gone backwards - by 0.5 per cent.
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