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Sinclair Davidson

There is a respectable economic argument for nationalised nuclear

The bottom line is that there are sound public choice arguments for the government to build and own nuclear power plants.

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“Well I wouldn’t be starting from here” is the punchline for every major project proposed in Australia.

Whatever the merits of the Liberal policy to build and operate nuclear power plants, it appears that many people have settled on a definitive argument as to why it is bad policy.

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Sinclair Davidson is a professor of economics at the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.

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