Economic Policies
The Nobel Prize winning economist James Tobin once said that the study of economics “offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind”. One of the ways in which it does this is through the implementation of economic policy that helps to ameliorate boom-and-bust cycles, reduces unemployment, contains inflation or lifts people’s living standards in sustainable ways.
Inappropriately low interest rates are as dangerous as inappropriately high ones
Economic Policies, Publications | 17th September 2009Article published in the Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, 17th September 2009
Anticipating Crises in Markets and Government
Economic Policies | 3rd September 2009Introductory remarks, Plenary Session at ANZSOG Conference, 3rd September 2009
The Global Financial Crisis of 2007 – 09 : An Australian Perspective
Economic Policies | 19th August 2009The 2009 Shann Memorial Lecture, 19th August 2009
The Rudd Government’s Fiscal Stimulus Proposals
Economic Policies | 19th February 2009Opening Statement to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance & Public Administration’s Inquiry into Government Fiscal Stimulus Measures, 9th February 2009
Reserve Bank independence and all that
Economic Policies | 30th June 2008Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics’ Inquiry into the Reserve Bank Amendment (Enhanced Independence) Bill 2008
Competition, Productivity, Economic Growth and Living Standards
Economic Policies, Productivity | 3rd February 2005Address to the Adjudication Branch of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission – Mollymook Shores Resort, New South Wales, 3rd February 2005