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Price Transparency: a Double Edged Sword?
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Price Transparency: a Double Edged Sword?

The benefits of increased price transparency are well known. A reduction in consumer search costs places pressure on producers to price their products competitively and, accordingly, enhances consumer welfare. After all, who wouldn’t want to shave a few dollars off their morning coffee? Technological progress over the past few
Jun 21, 2019 3 min read
Learning to Pay – The Hefty Price of Textbooks
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Learning to Pay – The Hefty Price of Textbooks

Why on earth are we paying so much for our textbooks? It’s a question that comes across the minds of many students after their first trip to the campus bookstore – and it’s certainly an important one.   Each year students are expected to spend hundreds of dollars on their
Feb 24, 2016 3 min read
Editors' Picks - 5 October 2014
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Editors' Picks - 5 October 2014

This week in Editors’ Picks we take a look at the individual’s  compared to the public’s benefit from tertiary education, a $23million book about flies, shifting the focus of economic growth to ‘degrowth’, Uber’s solution to supply capped taxi markets, and an explanation of what we knew
Dec 31, 2013 2 min read
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