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Justin Pyvis

Justin holds a PhD in economics and has 20+ years of policy and investment experience across Australia, NZ, and Hong Kong. These days he’s often found walking cities (jwalk.ing, trying to understand how they work.

The tobacco tax disaster
Australia’s tobacco taxes are a social, economic and legal disaster.
Andrew Leigh's inequality slip-up
Leigh’s misreading of the income inequality data means he’s at risk of misdiagnosing the underlying problems in Australia.
The wrong way to fix the budget
Jim Chalmers’ planned superannuation changes are an inefficient tax grab with damaging unintended consequences.
The trilemma of age limits, Housing constraints matter, Prices work, and What grows productivity.
Here’s some of what I’ve been reading from outside Australia recently, along with a few short thoughts on each. The trilemma of social media age limits # The Albanese government’s social media age limits— a bad idea based on junk science—will be in place by the end of 2025.
Are you a supervillain?
Would you choose cheaper medicines today, or incentives for innovation that could save millions of lives in the future?