Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Maximising the Potential of SXSW Sydney Games: Report on SXSW Sydney 2023 as a Games Industry Event
Published 2024-02-16This report is based on findings from a research project led by Associate Professor Marcus Carter and the University of Sydney Games & Play Lab. The team comprised 11 researchers from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, all ...Report, Research -
Did marginal propensities to consume change with the housing boom and bust?
Published 2024We extend a widely used semi-structural model to identify and estimate dynamic consumption elasticities with respect to transitory income shocks. Applying our model to household survey data, we find a structural break in ...Article -
Disobedient Discourse: Mill, ContraPoints, and the Limits of Free Speech Norms
Published 2024-02-02In this paper, I explore contemporary disagreement regarding protests against speakers deemed regressive or bigoted by progressive activists. I do so by examining the rationale, scope, and operation of free speech norms ...Thesis -
Locked Up & Locked Out: Incarceration & Children's Interests
Published 2024-02-01In this thesis I question the justifiability of the current practice of juvenile incarceration. I argue that children have rights borne out of both extrinsic and intrinsic interests. I suggest that the detained child's ...Thesis -
Eco-anxiety and environmental history: a forum
Published 2024-02-01Environmental historians, like others who study and write about the environment, have long worked with the emotional and psychological impacts of environmental change, including grief, anxiety, rage, and despair. But the ...Article