Emeritus Professor R.G. Gregory, Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences
Professor Gregory will look back and analyse employment, skill imbalances, hours worked and welfare interactions in each of the economic booms and slumps over the last four decades and…
Professor Ross Garnaut AO, Distinguished Professor, The Australian National University
Professor Ross Garnaut presented the final report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 September 2008, the morning of the largest ever one day…
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…
Professor Marc Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
One of the great challenges of this century is to answer the question: How
do we bring first class basic science to bear on important applied
problems? Although the path is not completely…
Dr Martin Parkinson, Secretary, Department of Climate Change
The presentation focuses on three key questions on climate change: what set of policies are desirable? What are the impacts of policy action, and is global action achievable?
The first question…
Andrew Macintosh, Associate Director, ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy
On Friday, 5 September 2008, Professor Ross Garnaut released his much awaited supplementary draft report on targets and trajectories. The report argues that Australia's mid- and long-term targets should…
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 Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Decisions on whether and how much mitigation of the risks of dangerous climate change is justified raises exceptional challenges. In this lecture Professor Garnaut discusses the issues that arise when…
Professor R.G. Gregory
The talk looks back over the period of the Hawke, Keating and Howard governments and discusses what has been learned and what has been forgotten. It offers conjectures on likely economic outcomes…
Hosted by Professor Ian Chubb AC
In this debate, ANU plays host to a number of influential public figures including ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell; Dr Clive Hamilton, The Australia Institute; Professor Peter Bailey, ANU; Channel…
Professor Michael Pusey, Australia & New Zealand School of Government
Has economic reform run its course? What potential remains for the resumption of nation building progress? Contrary to expectations Canberra emerges from 20 years of neo-liberalism with…
Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific
In the inaugural S.T. Lee Lecture on Asia and the Pacific Professor Garnaut asks: How the risks of climate change will interact with the 'Platinum Age' of global economic growth? What are the limits…
Roger Clarke
Google is increasingly being perceived as the company that will follow IBM and Microsoft in dominating the IT industry. In this presentation, Professor Clarke will outline the many business lines that…
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…
Moderated by Professor Will Steffen, Director, ANU Fenner School of Enfionment and Society; Convener, ANU Institute for Environment
Will emissions trading harm or benefit the economy? Can emissions trading get Australia to a low emissions future? What is the right way toward an effective post-Kyoto international scheme? This…
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute
2007 K R Narayanan Oration Recent high rates of economic growth in India and other parts of the developing world, while reducing poverty and raising global…
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 Bibek Debroy, Professor, International Management Institute, New Delhi
India has registered nine per cent and higher GDP growth rates for three years in succession. But is this growth real and is it sustainable? Has there been a structural change in the economy or is it…
Sheryle Moon, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Information Industry Association
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) leads the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Australia. AIIA comprises almost 500 member companies that generate combined…
Professor Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University
While Professor Francis Fukuyama’s changing evaluation of the arguments of his one-time Neocon colleagues has illuminated major issues about American policy and the war in Iraq, his general thinking…
Professor Warwick J McKibbin, Executive Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
The Fifth Annual Sir Leslie Melville Lecture was presented by Professor Warwick J McKibbin. Sir Leslie Melville’s legacy includes the design and establishment of…
Margaret Jackson, AC, Chairman, Qantas Airways Limited
Sir Roland Wilson Lecture 2006 The Australian public servant Sir Roland Wilson had a long and illustrious career. He was also a proud and active Chairman of Qantas from 1966–1973,…
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…
Suman K Bery, Director-General, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi
Chaired by Professor Robin Jeffrey, Convener of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Presented by the Australia South Asia Research Centre, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies,…
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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