Chris Richardson
, Director of Deloitte Access Economics
2012 has so far seen a buoyant share market, rising commodity prices, positive news on the US economy and a better…
Dr Mari Elka Pangestu
, Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia
These are good times for Indonesia. Commodity prices are high, the economy is buoyant, and the 2008-09 global financial crisis had little impact. The economic and democratic …
Arun Abey
, Chairman ipac Securities, Global Strategy Consultant, Director of the Smith Family
Why do happy people make better investors and better entrepreneurs? Why do most investors achieve less than half…
David Albury
, Director, Innovation Unit, King's College London
Public services are facing an unprecedented combination of challenges and opportunities: demographic, technological,…
Professor Steve Redburn
, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University - Australia
The US owes $14.4 trillion or $129,000 per taxpayer in debt, and every year into the future will add another $1.3…
Professor Barabara Wolfe
, Institute of Medicine (IOM)
In this lecture, Professor Wolfe will examine the relationship between income and health in the US and in Australia. In both nations, negative health behaviours are concentrated among the less educated…
Adjunct Professor Steven Lewis
, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University
Insurance has been a dominant concept in health care in the industrialized world since the late 19th century, originating in the Bismarckian welfare state. Today, insurance is a method for organizing…
Professor Hugh White
, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU
Professor Hugh White's recent Quarterly Essay, Power Shift: Australia's future between Washington and Beijing looks at Australia's strategic choices in the Asian Century. In this lecture professor…
2010 Lions Oratory Competition
In this year's Sixteenth Annual Lions Oratory Competition, student representatives from the ANU Colleges competed for the perpetual Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The objective…
Professor Ngo Van Long
, James McGill Professor of Economics
This lecture reviews the literature on the voluntary contributions to public goods by repeatedly-interacting contributors and discusses how the economic theory of choice of sequences of actions sheds…
Dr Judith Ajani
, Economist, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU
Many plantation managed investment companies have collapsed. A pulp mill proposal struggles to find financiers. A stock exchange listed forestry company requests a share trading halt while it tries…
Professor Ron McKinnon
, Stanford University
The international dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange. But erratic U.S. monetary and financial policies, have upset the U.S. and a world…
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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