In the wake of the financial crisis, most developed countries have entered a period of prolonged budgetary austerity. While the success of austerity programs is still unclear, it is also an open question what success would mean for activist government in the long run. This paper rejects the...

Queensland’s community services sector experiences underfunding in part due to a lack of adequate indexation of government pricing for services purchased. This problem accumulates year-on-year to increase in significance as time progresses. This was demonstrated in research conducted in 2022...

In this paper, I demonstrate that an indicator which is commonly used to assess the long-term fiscal sustainability of public finances in EU member states (“S2”) is also defined if government borrowing rates are assumed to be permanently lower than the growth rate of GDP. I illustrate this...