• Businesses must invest in productivity

    John Hawkins     |      June 14, 2025

    Rather than blame their workforce, or wait for more government handouts and initiatives, businesses must invest in productivity improvements for themselves.

  • Embracing abundance

    John Hawkins     |      June 9, 2025

    The economic chaos, personal cruelty and cultural vandalism wrought by Donald Trump means the Democrats must clip his wings at the November 2026 mid-term elections, and a bestselling new book might be the key.

  • Tackling the surge in inflation

    John Hawkins     |      May 31, 2022

    Australia’s current surge in inflation, like that in much of the world, reflects a mix of temporary and more sustained factors and demand and supply issues, and navigating this new challenge will require agile economic management on the part of new Labor administration.

  • How will Elon change Twitter?

    John Hawkins     |      April 28, 2022

    Some twitter users have responded with dismay to the news that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is buying the popular social media platform, but why does he want it and what will he use it for?

  • Remembering Geoff Harcourt

    John Hawkins     |      December 8, 2021

    Australian economics has lost one of its most internationally renowned and prolific scholars with the passing of Geoffrey Harcourt at the age of 90.