Beyond the Economic Crisis: Alternatives to Market Liberalism
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Free. RSVP: See Below
Function Rooms, Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace
The Australian Institute for Social Research and The Don Dunstan Foundation is hosting a free lunch time public lecture with Professor John Quiggin.
John Quiggin is a Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland. He is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He has produced over 1000 publications, including five books and over 300 journal articles and book chapters, in fields including environmental economics, risk analysis, production economics, and the theory of economic growth. He has also written on policy topics including climate change, micro-economic reform, privatisation, employment policy and the management of the Murray-Darling river system.
John Quiggin has been an active contributor to Australian public debate in a wide range of media. He is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review, to which he also contributes review and feature articles. He frequently comments on policy issues for radio and TV. He was one of the first Australian academics to present publications on a website (now at http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin). In 2002, he commenced publication of a blog (now at http://johnquiggin.com) providing daily comments on a wide range of topics.
In December 2008 at the ANU John was a keynote speaker at the Economics and Democracy conference. His talk was titled 'The end of Economic Liberalism'. In July this year he followed the theme with the Whitlam Institute on the topic 'After the Crisis' and noted that those countries hit hardest in this crisis were previously 'darlings' of the financial press and 'free market' economists generally. Currently John is working on his next book with the intriguing title Zombie Economics: Six Dead Ideas that Threaten the World Economy. His lecture on 30th September will be an interesting discussion of his theme.
N.B. Seating is limited. Please RSVP to: relf.ddf@internode.on.net with the subject line: Attending Lecture Prof J Quiggin. In the email please write the names of people attending and their phone numbers.
