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Public Debt: What Measures Should We Use? A Case Study of Public Debt in Mid‐ and Post‐pandemic Australia and Its Economic, Policy and Social Consequences

Australian Economic Review, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 441-460, December 2022., 2022
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic saw governments around the world suddenly accumulate substantially higher levels of public debt. We consider the level of debt entered into by Australia's federal, state and territory governments and compare this against three metrics for debt sustainability.
Sebastian Zwalf, Robin Scott
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COVID‐19 and the Meaning of Crisis

Development and Change, Volume 53, Issue 6, Page 1151-1176, November 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Crisis is a concept that has a long history; it has come to denote moments of rupture and to foreground life and death decisions necessary for its resolution. The recent deployment of the concept in broad social, economic and political spheres has not only given rise to an industry of crisis management but has also established it as a ...
Maha Abdelrahman
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Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Short Abstract Community infrastructure and the care that it provides has been at the sharp end of swingeing government cuts brought about through austere economics and politics. In the UK, a manifestation, and legacy, of this process is Community Asset Transfer (CAT).
Neil Turnbull
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Can Cold Turkey Reduce Inflation Inertia? Evidence on Disinflation and Level‐k Thinking from a Laboratory Experiment

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 54, Issue 8, Page 2477-2517, December 2022., 2022
Abstract It is widely believed that inflation inertia varies with the policy pursued. In a novel experiment, price setters determine inflation rates and react to a central bank's indicator, which is implemented exogenously either as cold turkey or gradual disinflation.
MARCUS GIAMATTEI
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Revisionism as Statecraft: David Marquand, the SDP Split and the Politics of Community

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses a surprisingly neglected aspect of David Marquand's intellectual development: his career as a politician. Hence, it locates his intellectual efforts from the mid‐1970s through to the end of the 1980s in relation to the travails of the Wilson and Callaghan governments.
Nick Garland
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A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the emerging legal rationalities of EU's green industrial policy, questioning if they represent a departure from the neoliberal paradigm that prioritised safeguarding the competitive order. I argue that the European Green Industrial Plan signals a new role for law in the orchestration and balancing of public purpose and private ...
Ioannis Kampourakis
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go‐to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ...
Ståle Holgersen, Timothy Blackwell
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Intellectual property rights as private rights: Implications of the theory of internally limited rights and incentive theory for reconstructing the normative content of rights in intangible goods

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract The article examines the normative content and justification of intellectual property rights (IPR), focusing on the question of whether the incentive theory provides a sufficient and appropriate basis for the regulation of intangible goods within the framework of the concept of inherently limited rights.
Konrad Gliściński
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Being good and doing good in behavioral policymaking

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Libertarian paternalism (LP) draws on behavioral economics to advocate for noncoercive, nonfiscal policy interventions to improve individual well‐being. However, growing criticism is encouraging behavioral policymaking—long dominated by LP approaches—to consider more structural and fiscally impactful interventions as valid responses to ...
Stuart Mills
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