Professor Dale Henderson, Visiting Professor of Economics, Georgetown University
The lecture comprised a description and an analysis of (some aspects of) the current financial crisis. The crisis is viewed as a "financial perfect storm" resulting from a combination of developments…
Professor Mark R. Rosenzweig, Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University
This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the…
Professor Thomas Lemieux, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia
Wage inequality has been increasing is most industrialised countries over the last two or three decades. There are, nonetheless, major differences across countries in terms of the timing and magnitude…
Professor Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin
A secular decline in emigration rates from the Third World since the 1990s has gone unnoticed. The recent rise in unemployment in high-wage countries has accelerated the secular decline. These trends…
Jon Stanhope and Zed Seselja , ACT Chief Minister and ACT opposition Leader
This forum is the last of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
Deputy Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Brendan Smyth
This forum is the second of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates…
Frank Pangallo and Richard J Mulcahy
This forum is the first of three public forums hosted by The Australian National University and The Canberra Times. The three forums pit 2008 ACT Election candidates against…
Andaleeb Akhand, Amanda Alford, Hae-Young (Connie) Chong, Kirill Talanine, Tamie Balaga, Thomas Conyers, Contestants in the 2008 Lions Oratory Competition
The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU…
Mr Ian Macfarlane, AC, Former Governor of The Reserve Bank of Australia
This lecture was the Sixth Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Lecture. The lecture expands on the final chapter of Macfarlane's 2006 Boyer Lectures, which suggested that future economic shocks…
Richard Carson, Professor of Economics, University of California
ANU Trevor Swan Distinguished Lectures in Economics The lecture traces the outlines of economic thinking on climate change. Two competing paradigms are reviewed: (1) modelling of greenhouse gases…
Professor Warwick McKibbin, Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Business and Economics
As a mechanism for controlling climate change, the Kyoto Protocol has not been a success. Over the decade from it’s signing in 1997 to the beginning of its first commitment period in 2008, greenhouse…
Dr Ken Henry AC
In 1951, the year Sir Roland Wilson became Secretary to the Treasury, the terms of trade rose to their highest level on record. While the terms of trade fell back in the following year, they did not…
Will Hutton, Author
China’s phenomenal economic growth is paralleled in scale and speed only by the rise of the United States between the Civil War and the First World War in 1914. Since 1978 the economy has grown…
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
Preferential trading arrangements are becoming increasingly popular among the nations of the world. But are they a positive development? In the Fourth H W Arndt Memorial Lecture – presented by…
Professor B.B. Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
The first lecture in the ANU-Toyota Public Lecture Series 2006 was presented by the ANU College of Business & Economics. In this lecture, influential Indian economist Professor B.B. Bhattacharya…
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