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What's the best way to boost the economy? Invest in high-voltage transmission lines

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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When, in the midst of the pandemic, the Economic Society of Australia invited 150 of Australia’s keenest young thinkers to come up with “brief, specific and actionable” proposals to improve the economy, amid scores of ideas about improving job matching, changing the tax system, providing non-repayable loans to...

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