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John Quiggin

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Name: John Quiggin

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

What lies behind the power price increases in Australia | John Quiggin

big increases in the price of electricity averaging 20%. This was a particularly bitter pill for a government that came to power promising to cut the cost of living, and particularly for a treasurer keen to persuade an already hostile public that selling ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Rising Prices, John Quiggin, Hostile

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

What lies behind the power price increases in Australia? | John Quiggin

John Quiggin: To explain the latest 20% rise of electricity cost in Queensland, look no further than the free market reforms kickstarted in the 1990s John Quiggin ... [Published Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: John Quiggin, Rising Prices, Reformism

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Links 6/6/13

BIC For Her Medium Ballpoint Pen (Box of 12) – Black Amazon. Richard Smith continues on his Consumerist beat of finding products designed for special tastes with suitably discerning reviews. Humanities Fall From Favor Wall Street Journal. :-( ... [Published naked capitalism - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Radiation, John Quiggin, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Antidote, Richard Smith

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Qld's prime assets for sale?

Queensland's State Budget on Tuesday could reveal a mega auction of public assets aimed at chipping away at the state's spiralling debt.StoriesQueensland's power generators, investment corporation, ports, hospital services and schools could potentially ... [Published Today Tonight - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: privatise, Bob Walker, Clive Palmer

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Green Australia coming to a grid near you

Yet another study has come out, this one for Australia, concluding that all-renewable electricity is feasible while maintaining current standards for reliability. The difference here is the authors, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). These ... [Published The Reality-Based Community - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Nuclear, John Quiggin, Power Grid

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

OECD

You’ve been warned!

Australia has been ranked as the happiest of the OECD countries , and that for the third year running! We might come back to that. Now Ross Garnaut tells us that if we continue on our present path we are “sleepwalking into a deeply problematic future ... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Ross Garnaut, OECD, Recession, Jacob Greber, Australia

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 2 reports

Noted for June 2, 2013

Ezra Klein smacks down Avik Roy : The shocking truth about Obamacare’s rate shock | Obituary: Bob Fletcher saved farms of interned Japanese-Americans during WWII | EconoSpeak: The Return of MaxSpeak | Rick Ungar vs. Avik Roy: The Dull Knives ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Ramesh Ponnuru, Portugal, John Quiggin, Michael Tomasky

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Martin Wolf's climate change column

Further to the thread I started on Monday about Martin Wolf's pessimistic column , I've had an email from economist John Quiggin which goes directly to the source of Wolf's (and my) pessimism.For Wolf, the problem is that the case for acting against ... [Published The Interpreter - May 24 2013]

Entities: John Quiggin, Stern's, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Raising the GST

In a sane world, Labor would also be contemplating the possibility of raising the GST. It seems that Joe Hockey, who circle-squaring challenge seems to get greater every time Tony Abbott opens his mouth, is at least broaching the idea , though the ... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - May 19 2013]

Entities: Taxes, Tony Abbott, John Quiggin, Mining, Joe Hockey

First reported Mar 26 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

#sos13 – Saving Our Senate

John Quiggin writes : Discussion over the Labor leadership, and the government in general, is now academic, in the pejorative sense of the term. Barring a shock on a larger scale than that of 2001, Abbott is going to win the election, whenever it ... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 26 2013]

Entities: GetUp!, Labor, John Quiggin

First reported Mar 13 2013 - Updated Mar 13 2013 - 1 reports

Why do Leftist schemes always cost so much?

Would you believe Professor John Quiggin got a $2 million… ... [Published Andrew Bolt - Mar 13 2013]

Entities: John Quiggin

First reported Jan 01 2013 - Updated Jan 01 2013 - 2 reports

John Quiggin on the (Failed) State of Macroeconomics

John Quiggin:Is there a consensus? Clearly there was a consensus as of early 2008…. Everyone agreed that the core business of macroeconomic management should be handled by central banks using interest rate adjustments to meet inflation targets. In the ... [Published Brad DeLong - Jan 01 2013]

Entities: John Quiggin, Inflation, General War

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What lies behind the power price increases in A... [Published Big News Network - Jun 18 2013]
What lies behind the power price increases in A... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jun 17 2013]
Links 6/6/13 [Published naked capitalism - Jun 06 2013]
Qld's prime assets for sale? [Published Today Tonight - Jun 06 2013]
Green Australia coming to a grid near you [Published The Reality-Based Community - Jun 05 2013]
You’ve been warned! [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Jun 05 2013]
Noted for June 2, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jun 01 2013]
Noted for June 2, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - Jun 01 2013]
Martin Wolf's climate change column [Published The Interpreter - May 24 2013]
Austerity Has Been Tested, and It Failed [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - May 20 2013]
Raising the GST [Published Larvatus Prodeo - May 19 2013]
How Progressives Failed To Stop Austerity When ... [Published Think Progress - Apr 29 2013]
Austerity: The Biggest Roadblock To Progressive... [Published Think Progress - Apr 26 2013]
Reinhart/Rogoff-gate isn’t the first time auste... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 20 2013]
March 2009 Evolution of Economists' Recent Thin... [Published Brad DeLong - Apr 19 2013]
March 2009 Evolution of Economists' Recent Thin... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 19 2013]
Why Debunking The Austerity Paper Won’t Kill Au... [Published Think Progress - Apr 17 2013]
Envisioning realistic Utopias, realised utopias... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Apr 07 2013]
Reflections on Real Utopias [Published Crooked Timber - Apr 03 2013]
#sos13 – Saving Our Senate [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 26 2013]
Ferguson without class [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 22 2013]
Why do Leftist schemes always cost so much? [Published Andrew Bolt - Mar 13 2013]
Quggin has a carbon tax to make you decommodify [Published Andrew Bolt - Mar 12 2013]
Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, the Queensland LNP... [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 11 2013]
Overflow Thread [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Mar 10 2013]
Post-Democracy in Italy and Europe [Published Crooked Timber - Mar 01 2013]
Links for 02-23-2013 [Published Economist's View - Feb 23 2013]
For the first time in history we could end pove... [Published 3quarksdaily - Jan 26 2013]
Links 1/19/13 [Published naked capitalism - Jan 19 2013]
Noted for January 18, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - Jan 18 2013]

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What lies behind the power price increases in A... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jun 17 2013] John Quiggin: To explain the latest 20% rise of electricity cost in Queensland, look no further than the free market reforms kickstarted in the 1990s John Quiggin ...
Links 6/6/13 [Published naked capitalism - Jun 06 2013] BIC For Her Medium Ballpoint Pen (Box of 12) – Black Amazon. Richard Smith continues on his Consumerist beat of finding products designed for special tastes with suitably discerning reviews. Humanities Fall From Favor Wall Street Journal. :-( ...
Green Australia coming to a grid near you [Published The Reality-Based Community - Jun 05 2013] Yet another study has come out, this one for Australia, concluding that all-renewable electricity is feasible while maintaining current standards for reliability. The difference here is the authors, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). These ...
You’ve been warned! [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Jun 05 2013] Australia has been ranked as the happiest of the OECD countries , and that for the third year running! We might come back to that. Now Ross Garnaut tells us that if we continue on our present path we are “sleepwalking into a deeply problematic future ...
Noted for June 2, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Jun 01 2013] Ezra Klein smacks down Avik Roy : The shocking truth about Obamacare’s rate shock \| Obituary: Bob Fletcher saved farms of interned Japanese-Americans during WWII \| EconoSpeak: The Return of MaxSpeak \| Rick Ungar vs. Avik Roy: The Dull Knives ...