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Wilderness gives our mental health a real boost. But growing private interests in national parks are stopping those less well off from free nature therapy.
An uncritical obsession with productivity threatens to distract us from the deeper problems Australia must face and fix.
As the US gets less religious, some thinkers warn that it may get more selfish as people engage less with their communities. A team of scholars decided to investigate that concern.
South Africa should ensure that changes to energy efficient vehicles is done in a way that creates jobs and protects workers.
Many trials are taking place, but they need a reality check.
The Ajaokuta steel plant stands unused after 40 years of construction and US$8 billion in investment.
We’ve researched co-operation at work for many years – and its much easier to talk about than to achieve, especially in a political system as adversarial as Australia’s.
Increasing productivity means increasing investment, but raising interest rates makes businesses do the opposite.
Research shows there can be profound business benefits to hiring people living with intellectual disability.
A new study finds that by 2030, less than one-third of the world’s major crop harvests will go directly to feed people.
Routines can be powerful tools to help people build a ‘new normal’ as pandemic restrictions lift. Routines can support creativity, boost health and provide meaningful activities and opportunities.
Getting on well with your work mates will improve your domestic partnership.
Small businesses are less productive, less innovative and pay staff less than big ones, and even before the pandemic they were shedding jobs.
Elite employers have created an atmosphere where workers constantly seek to be as busy as possible. Families are often the first casualty of this culture.
A new study faults a well-established concept that informs land-use policies in developing countries.
Scotland, Ireland and Spain are among those trialling four-day weeks, but they’re not living in the real world.
‘Hustle culture’ is so pervasive in U.S. society that not even the coronavirus pandemic could shake the urge to prioritize productivity.
Only five of the 56 economists surveyed believed lower immigration would boost wage growth. The rest backed measures to lift productivity and investment and changes that boosted the power of unions.
A parliamentary inquiry is looking into how to improve literacy levels among Australian adults. But the government can act now to make some information and services more accessible.
Top contributors
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Professor, Strategy, Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Johannesburg
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Academic Director, Murdoch University
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Professor, Monash University
