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Brendan Markey-Towler

Brendan Markey-Towler

How corporates care for kids

In recent years, we’ve seen a resurgence of marketing campaigns targeted at children — Coles’ “Little Shop ”, Woolworths’ “Mr Squiggle”…

Apr 1, 2019

Apr 1, 2019

Brendan Markey-Towler

Much ado about muffin means it’s time to talk minimum wages

So the CEO of Muffin Break has discovered over the weekend that there’s muffin so offensive to millennials on social media as her comments…

Feb 25, 2019

Feb 25, 2019

Brendan Markey-Towler

Ignore Hayne and deregulate the banking sector

It may seem paradoxical — even insane in polite society. But with a surge of new technologies emerging, which could provide competition…

Feb 25, 2019

Feb 25, 2019

Brendan Markey-Towler

Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has value

Could free units of a new digital currency end up being worth thousands of dollars?

Nov 5, 2018

Nov 5, 2018

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How markets are making our lives better

The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed, it’s up to A$1 in A$5 of the…

Oct 30, 2018

How markets are making our lives better

Oct 30, 2018

Brendan Markey-Towler

The economics of Australia’s too-common leadership spills

At the end of another week of chaos in Canberra, we’re all asking why this keeps happening. Why are our leaders playing politics instead of…

Aug 28, 2018

Aug 28, 2018

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Explainer: what is loss aversion and is it real?

A recent study claims a core idea in behavioural economics — loss aversion — is a fallacy. Loss aversion is the theory that the pain of…

Aug 28, 2018

Aug 28, 2018

Brendan Markey-Towler

Obesity is a market failure and innovation, not sin taxes, may be the solution

The standard economic response to high and rising obesity is to levy what’s known as a “sin tax”. The thinking is simple — add a tax to the…

Aug 14, 2018

Aug 14, 2018

Brendan Markey-Towler

Doomsaying about new technology helps make it better

That new technologies could actually be bad for us, by sapping our attention or ruining our memories, is an argument that goes back to…

Jun 26, 2018

Jun 26, 2018

Brendan Markey-Towler

A Public Choice case study: Senator Hanson and Company Tax

Senator Pauline Hanson is considered something of a dangerous joke in polite Australian society — an Australian Nigel Farage to placate the…

May 30, 2018

May 30, 2018

Brendan Markey-Towler

Brendan Markey-Towler

Researcher in psychological and technological economics at the School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia

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