Join us on the evening of Wednesday 22 February for a timely panel discussion on the economics of President Trump, including an analysis of his trade and taxation policies, with a focus on what they might mean for Australia.

Panellists will include Professor Fabrizio Carmignani from Griffith University, Michael Knox, Chief Economist at Morgans, and Begoña Dominguez, Associate Professor at the School of Economics at UQ.

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Date From : Wed Feb 22, 2017 : 18:00
Date To : Wed Feb 22, 2017 : 20:00

The Economic Society of Australia (Qld) invites you to an important luncheon address featuring  Philip Lowe, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

This is the first occasion that the Philip Lowe has spoken in Queensland since his appointment as Governor in September 2016.

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Date From : Thu May 4, 2017 : 12:00
Date To : Thu May 4, 2017 : 14:00

Draft paper presented to ESA Qld on 13 March 2017 by Professor Manuel Pinho of Columbia University on Zombie Electricity Utilities.

Presentation by Professor Manuel Pinho of Columbia University on Zombie Electricity Utilities to ESA Qld on 13 March 2017.

Lisa Cameron is a Professor in the Department of Econometrics at Monash University.

Denise Doiron is currently Professor of Economics at The University of New South Wales.

Felicity Emmett is the Senior Economist in the Australian Economics team at ANZ

Alexandra Heath is currently the Head of Economic Analysis Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Nicki Hutley is Director and Chief Economist at Urbis.

Jessica Irvine is economics writer for The Sydney Morning Herald where she writes regular opinion columns, compiles the weekly Irvine Index and is a member of the paper's editorial writing team.

Jenny Wilkinson has recently been appointed to run a new Division in the Treasury, the Retirement Income Policy Division.

Danielle is a Fellow at the Grattan Institute.

Deborah Cobb-Clark is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney.

Susan Dynarski studies and teaches the economics of education and has a special interest in the interaction of inequality and education.

Catherine Eckel is Sarah and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University,

Renée Fry-McKibbin is a Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy, and the Associate Dean Research of the College of Asia & the Pacific.

A three hour workshop on how to get what you want, presented by Ruchi Sinha

The Economic Society of Australia and sponsor Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, were honoured that Professor Joseph Stiglitz once again agreed to be our speaker in 2014.

Professor Stiglitz is an acclaimed international economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. He is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of the University’s Committee on Global Thought. 

He helped create a new branch of economics, “The Economics of Information”. This explores the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneers such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts.

He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organisation and rural organisation, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of Research & Development.  

His work has helped explain the circumstances in which markets do not work well, and how selective government intervention can improve their performance.  

Deirdre McCloskey teaches economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A well-known economist and historian and rhetorician, she has written sixteen books and around 400 scholarly pieces on topics ranging from technical economics and statistics to transgender advocacy and the ethics of the bourgeois virtues.

She is known as a "conservative" economist, Chicago-School style (she taught for 12 years there), but protests that "I'm a literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive Episcopalian, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not 'conservative'! I'm a Christian libertarian."

Her latest book, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 2010), which argues that an ideological change rather than saving or exploitation is what made us rich, is the second in a series of four. The first was The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006), asking if a participant in a capitalist economy can still have an ethical life (briefly, yes).   Other publications include “The Rhetoric of Economics” (1983), The Cult of Statistical Significance (2008 with Stephen Ziliak), Economical Writing (2000), How to Be Human- Though an Economist (2000),   “Christian Economics” (1999), “Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure” (2013). 

More information can be found  at www.deirdremccloskey.com