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Australia must choose the right metric to tax the digital economy

The three theories of value – activity, intellectual property, infrastructure – that the government could use to determine taxation must be...

26.03.2026 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Economics explains Donald Trump’s bid for Greenland

The United States has realised that leasing military access from Denmark is an incomplete contract fraught with intolerable transaction costs.

11.01.2026 20

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why the productivity payoff from AI at work is so poor

The technology is ready. The problem is our workplace relations framework requires prior permission to use artificial intelligence.

20.11.2025 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Universities are not businesses and can’t be run like one

When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge. Economists have long warned of this.

14.09.2025 20

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why AI is an industrial relations challenge for business

Australia will miss the productivity gains from artificial intelligence unless we fix the laws that stop firms from reorganising how work gets done.

18.08.2025 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Forget Trump and Harvard. Australian universities have an AI problem

Many students now lack the general knowledge, or even specific knowledge, to know when the AI tools are hallucinating, writes Sinclair Davidson.

29.05.2025 20

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

10 per cent tariffs are what Trump-style mercy looks like

Donald Trump thinks we’ve been subsidising our lifestyles at the expense of his constituents. He is not entirely wrong and doesn’t care that he is...

07.04.2025 8

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson