by Laurie Bristow | 15/05/2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

We all learn in our first-year economics courses about economies of scale – the concept that the larger a firm becomes, the more cost efficient it can be. This cost efficiency comes through the streamlining its processes (#lowermarginalcosts) and can often provide the...

by Tim O’Brien | 08/04/2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

Once every four years, we all pretend to understand how diving is scored, or that the reason we watch the beach volleyball is for the score. It is also around this time that many of us find ourselves asking what the point of the Commonwealth Games is if half the world...

by Tim O’Brien | 13/03/2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

With the annual UQES pub crawl just around the corner, this year in collaboration with the UQLS, you may be wondering: what is bitcoin? Is it a tangible object I can hold? Is it a gift bestowed upon man by the gods who are in turn leading us to our own salvation?...