Joshua Gans
Joshua Gans is Professor of Management (Information Economics) and Director of the Centre for Ideas and the Economy at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. He has been at the Melbourne Business School since 1996. Prior to that he was at the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. Joshua holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and, 1990, received the University Medal in economics from the University of Queensland. He is also Managing Director of, economics consultancy, CoRE Research.
While Joshua’s research interests are varied he has developed specialities in the nature of technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organisation and regulatory economics.
Articles by Joshua Gans
Don’t buy my book for Fathers Day
Fathers Day - or in our house Feathrs or Farthers day depending upon the cards I received last year -…... Read more
How and why the ETS could cost you
In 2007, Chris Goodall contended that walking may cause more environmental harm than driving. A noted that a 5km drive…... Read more
Harry Potter’s uneasy relationship with academia
Last weekend marked the launch of the sixth in the now eight-part movie saga that is Harry Potter. As is…... Read more
Mad furore surrounding the so-called “people’s bank”
A few days ago, I was part of a group of 6 economists who wrote an open letter arguing for…... Read more
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
