Twice a year most Australians are made to deliberately mess with our body clocks. When we go into daylight saving and when we come out.
Many of us love the longer summer evenings. What we don’t love is the sleep adjustment that makes us feel tired, fuzzy and out of sorts.
There are plenty of arguments about whether daylight saving is a good or bad thing.
So in this episode we look at the costs and benefits and whether it’s time to rethink the concept.
Guests:
Dr Thomas Sigler, Associate Professor, University of Queensland
Allison Schrager, Economist & Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Dr Yevgeny Mugerman, Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
Dr Jayanta Sarkar, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Global Growth: The Benefits vs The Consequences
All By Myself: The Economics of Loneliness.
Hackenomics
Puffed out: The Costs of Vaping
Choconomics: The Rising Cost Of Chocolate
Inheritocracy: The lasting generational advantages of home ownership
Sharing the Benefits of Innovation
The Cost of Wage Theft
Market Concentration of the Beer Industry
The Economic Cost of Illiteracy
A material world
The Cost of Loyalty Programs
Climate Change Costs
Supermarket prices
Influence of the consulting industry and the long view
Different generations talking about future generations
Subscriptions, drip pricing and the cost of returning online shopping
The cost of tertiary education
The cost of live music
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