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24 Aug

The transformation of the world economy

25/08/2024
By David James
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In geoeconomic and financial terms, the Earth has begun shifting on its axis. Triggered by the West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine,...

12 Jun

Business & Economics

Late-stage capitalism and the search for growth

12/06/2024
By David James
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In the developed world, it is often observed that we are living in an era of ‘late-stage capitalism’. To get a clear picture of what th...

15 Feb

Feature series, Law & Politics

The end of the ‘American moment’

09/03/2024
By David James
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This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

08 Nov

Business & Economics

Directing expenditure to where it’s needed most for Indigenous Australia

08/11/2023
By David James
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The failure of the ‘Yes’ campaign in the Voice referendum came as no surprise given that the coalition opposed it. The only constitutio...

28 Aug

Law & Politics

The new threat to freedom of expression

30/08/2023
By David James
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The federal government is moving to ban what it calls ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’ in an initiative similar to legislative mov...

05 Jun

Science & Health

AI and the problems of personification

05/06/2023
By David James
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In literary criticism, a commonly used term is ‘personification’, which describes when a writer invests natural phenomena with human qu...

07 Mar

Business & Economics

How deregulation left central banks with few weapons

07/03/2023
By David James
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Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Western financial markets have experienced steadily falling interest rates. Three years ago,...

26 Nov

Science & Health

From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers

27/06/2023
By David James
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For most of the first 15 years of the 21st century, there was a fierce debate between rationalist supporters of Charles Darwin’s theory...

22 Aug

Business & Economics

New dangers in a familiar debt crisis

22/08/2022
By David James
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Debt crises are as old as civilisation itself. The reason is simple. Compound interest increases geometrically, whereas economic activi...

16 May

Business & Economics

Home to roost: Getting out of our housing mess

15/07/2022
By David James
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Whoever wins this week’s election will inherit an Australian economy that is more distorted than it has been since the Second World War...

27 Apr

Law & Politics

The death of traditional journalism

15/07/2022
By David James
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Journalism is a humble activity, or at least it should be. To be a reporter in a newsroom is to be continually confronted with severe o...

28 Mar

Business & Economics

Australia’s economic challenges – and the political implications

28/03/2022
By David James
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The federal budgets brought down in 2020 and 2021 during the height of the pandemic were thought to be some of the most difficult ever ...

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About David James

The transformation of the world economy

Late-stage capitalism and the search for growth

The end of the ‘American moment’

Directing expenditure to where it’s needed most for Indigenous Australia

The new threat to freedom of expression

AI and the problems of personification

How deregulation left central banks with few weapons

From ‘Blind Watchmaker’ to seeing watchmakers

New dangers in a familiar debt crisis

Home to roost: Getting out of our housing mess

The death of traditional journalism

Australia’s economic challenges – and the political implications