Bio

Joshua Gans is Professor of Management (Information Economics) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. He maintains a blog at www.economics.com.au.

Joshua Gans's contributions:

Getting to the Point on Health Insurance

Joshua Gans looks at options for health funding that won't distort the system.

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• Real world economics
• Health

No longer self evident: is all internet content created equal?

When it comes to the speed of content delivery, should we allow ISPs to pick favourites or force them to play Switzerland? Joshua Gans debates the pros and cons of network neutrality

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Getting Cross with the Media and Cross-Media Ownership

Joshua Gans says that our cross-media ownership laws may not guarantee bias-free media. He outlines the complex interaction between citizen biases, owners’ interests, and market forces, and concludes that the answer lies not in cross-media ownership but in diversity of ownership across all media outlets

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Three words: structure, structure and structure

Joshua Gans draws parallels between Terminator 3 and the full sale of sale of Telstra as he explores the history of the telecommunications giant and outlines the structural changes that the government should take.

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