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A question for the treasurer: how do you treat mental health without measuring well-being?
October 13, 2020
Read more...Treasurer Josh Frydenberg mocked the idea of a “well-being budget” as “laughable” back in February. He’s got less reason to laugh now.
According to an Essential Research poll last week, 78% of Australians agree the pandemic has exposed flaws in the economy and there is an opportunity to explore new ways to run things. A well-being ...
Thinking economists are grappling with why their profession has made our lives worse
September 24, 2020
Read more...by Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald
Most economists are great believers in the need for “reform” – for other people, not themselves. Over the past 30 or 40 years, no profession has had more influence over the policies governments have pursued, but the results have hardly been flash.
Even the lightning speed at which an epidemic in ...
Provisioning Systems for a Good Life Within Planetary Boundaries
September 9, 2020
Read more...by Andrew L.Fanning, Daniel W.O’Neill and Milena Büchs
The concept of provisioning systems has recently emerged as a promising way to understand the differences between levels of resource use and social outcomes observed across societies. However, the characteristics of provisioning systems remain poorly understood.
Here, we make a new contribution to conceptualising provisioning systems and to ...
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