Economics Issues
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'Economics is not the only "major" that provides a base for a successful career in business, but I haven't seen a better one. The concepts and ideas you learn in economics – such as opportunity costs, fiscal policy, utility, demand and supply – have a working "lifetime" application.'
Bob Edgar
Senior Managing Director ANZ
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The study of Economics offers an insight into a broad range of issues in Australia and around the world, including:
- A contest with the taxman – the impact of tax rates on tax evasion and wastefully invested resources
- The cost of toilet paper in Zimbabwe
- Managing Eden: Using Incentive Theory for Wildlife Protection
- Foreign Aid: What good is it?
- Micro-credit, Fertility Decision and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
- Regulating a Fishery when prices are uncertain
- Resource Abundance, Poverty and Development
- Are we really making best using our water?
- Environmentalism, Democracy, and Pollution Control
- Creating markets for greenhouse gas emissions
- What drives productivity growth in Australia?
- Can we explain the cycles in our economy and in the world?
- Will the China boom continue? What does it mean for Australia?
- How can we reduce the number of people living in poverty around the world?
- How can we make our welfare system more effective?
- Our population is ageing – what challenges to do we face?
- How should responsibilities be divided between state and federal governments?
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