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Describe your startup in a nutshell: What problem does it solve, why is it unique and what is the market potential?PaySquad helps groups of consumers buy together at checkout.Checkouts are stuck in single player mode - multiplayer payments are almost nev…
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Faith, Work and Economics

Entrepreneurship & PaySquad
Faith, Work and Economics

Entrepreneurship & PaySquad

Describe your startup in a nutshell: What problem does it solve, why is it unique and what is the market potential?PaySquad helps groups of consumers buy together at checkout.Checkouts are stuck in single player mode - multiplayer payments are almost nev…
Faith, Work and Economics

A Conversation about Faith–Work Integration

A theologian, a worker and a pastor sat down for a chat… sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it really happened. In preparation for a conference, I sat down with a serial entrepreneur and a church planter to talk about faith–work integration. Here i…
The Posture of Biblical Justice

Faith, Work and Economics

The Posture of Biblical Justice

2020: The year the world stopped. In our global pause, issues of injustice have come to the forefront. As the tide has gone out on our busyness, what remains on the shore is the heartache of natural disasters, domestic violence, mental health, racism, hu…
How Will We Wean Ourselves off Coronavirus Job Subsidies?

Faith, Work and Economics

How Will We Wean Ourselves off Coronavirus Job Subsidies?

The coronavirus will be with higher education for a long time and we need to work out how to wean ourselves off the job subsidies that are in place in many countries.  They were devised hurriedly to deal with an emergency, and gave employers and workers …
Religion and theology degrees are a good community investment

Faith, Work and Economics

Religion and theology degrees are a good community investment

With all the discussion of Dan Tehan’s changes to prices and government subsidies for different types of degrees, especially humanities degrees, solid evidence has rarely been deployed about the economic returns to individuals, the government budget, and…

Faith, Work and Economics

Fixing America’s College Debt Crisis

America has a problem with student debt – both the huge amount owing and the fact that much of it was accumulated studying in programs that had little chance of generating future income to repay the debt.  It is a problem of perverse incentives for stude…

Faith, Work and Economics

Sharing the Economic Burden of Coronavirus Containment

As we have watched the medical horror of COVID-19 evolve, the shadow of large, long term and unequally distributed economic impacts hangs over us. The restrictions mean many people will lose livelihoods, face bankruptcy, and similar catastrophes, while o…

Faith, Work and Economics

Who Will Win the 2019 Economics Nobel Prize?

  Trying to pick Nobel Prize winners almost always ends in disappointment, and as an economist I have to be especially reticent about predictions based on our record of forecasting the economy.  We have citations, which tend not to be a very helpful gui…

Faith, Work and Economics

Incentive Problems for Interdisciplinary Research on Economics and Theology

Contemporary scholars seldom venture across disciplinary boundaries despite being regularly urged to do so in presidential addresses to academic societies, university vice-chancellors’ speeches, policy papers regularly produced by bureaucrats for their p…

Faith, Work and Economics

The Economic Value of Higher Education

The report released last week on “The Economic Impact of Group of Eight Universities”, discussed with breathless enthusiasm in some circles, is interesting both for its content and for what the exercise says about the state of public policy discussion…

Faith, Work and Economics

New Universities for Australia?

There seems to be a growing view that the Australian higher education system needs a shakeup, and that new universities, rather different to our existing ones, are needed. The public policy situation is complicated.  The fundamental problem is not the…

Faith, Work and Economics

The Financial Advice Nightmare

The Banking Royal Commission has focused attention on problems that have existed for a long time in the financial advice and planning industry. When you walk into a financial advisor’s office too often the experience is something like this. A smiling …

Faith, Work and Economics

Reflections on Competition in Theological Education

It is conference season for academics, and I’ve heard a lot at recent gatherings of theological educators about how we should be co-operating, and yet a few mutterings over coffee about how unrealistic this is because our institutions are competitors.…

Faith, Work and Economics

The Economic Modelling Game

Economic modelling has been in news lately with the BIS Shrapnel report on the impact of negative gearing which the Government latched onto to attack the Opposition’s policy. The modelling is “manifestly ridiculous” according John Daley of the Grattan…

Faith, Work and Economics

New Ideas for Higher Education Reform: A Market for Income Contingent Loans

Background The Commonwealth Government funds and regulates higher education in Australia.  For over a year, the Abbott government’s education minister Christopher Pyne unsuccessfully tried to persuade a hostile Senate to pass a higher education reform…

Faith, Work and Economics

Christian Universities: Why Professor Judge may be both Right and Wrong

This article is a reflection on reading Professor Edwin Judge’s[1] essay “The Undesirability of Christian Universities” in his collection Engaging Rome and Jerusalem edited by Associate Professor Stuart Piggin[2] in 2015.  Judge’s essay was written in 19…
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