What are green jobs? What policies can create green jobs? And is the term ‘green jobs’ meaningful in itself or is it just a politically attractive phrase? This paper seeks to answer these questions.

Banks were portrayed as the villains of the global financial crisis; many of the big international banks and their executives were associated with greed and excessive risk-taking. Regulators were obliged to step in with unprecedented rescue packages to save the financial systems in the US, the UK and, to a lesser extent, the major European...

Everyone knows that the mining boom led to record growth rates, enormous budget surpluses and historically low levels of unemployment — but was that really the case? The evidence suggests not according to David Richardson.

Rising energy prices combined with technological developments mean that renewable energy sources are becoming increasingly competitive with fossil fuel sources of energy. Mandatory renewable energy targets provide an added incentive to invest in renewable energy sources and the expectation of a modest price for carbon emissions helps encourage new investment in renewables even further. That...

The Introduction of an Emissions Trading Scheme has the potential to significantly reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, but the issue of which groups should be compensated, and by how much, is yet to be addressed. In this paper the Institute makes the case for providing substantial compensation to community groups, state and local governments, and...