Millionplus Australian real estate for saleOh Errol, sang Australian Crawl in their hymn to Tasmania’s gift to swashbuckling, I would give everything just to be like him. Such was the strength of the Flynn legend that the band named its second album Sirocco, after the schooner the adventure-seeking 20-year-old sailed from Sydney to New Guinea in 1929. Presumably it wasn’t Errol the tobacco planter and slave trader that inspired the...
Economics
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SlowTV: The market: Free, but not beyond government regulation. Gary Banks
Gary Banks | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 The past 30 years have seen a shift away from the post-war approach of governmental guidance and regulation of the economy towards an approach stressing more the primacy, efficiency and self-regulating character of markets. Most recently, the global financial crisis and the now near-... » play video -
SlowTV: Governing the economy: Fiscal policy. Ken Henry
Ken Henry | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 The past 30 years have seen a shift away from the post-war approach of governmental guidance and regulation of the economy towards an approach stressing more the primacy, efficiency and self-regulating character of markets. Most recently, the global financial crisis and the now near-... » play video -
SlowTV: The macroeconomic landscape and monetary policy. Bernie Fraser
Bernie Fraser | Sydney | Dec. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 The past 30 years have seen a shift away from the post-war approach of governmental guidance and regulation of the economy towards an approach stressing more the primacy, efficiency and self-regulating character of markets. Most recently, the global financial crisis and the now near-... » play video -
SlowTV: Governing the economy: The challenges ahead. Warwick McKibbin
Warwick McKibbin | Sydney | Dec. 2009
The past 30 years have seen a shift away from the post-war approach of governmental guidance and regulation of the economy towards an approach stressing more the primacy, efficiency and self-regulating character of markets. Most recently, the global financial crisis and the now near-universally acce... » play video -
SlowTV: Steve Keen on debt and the economy: How do we pay for all this?
Steve Keen | Canberra | Nov. 2009
Speaking at the Per Capita annual conference Policy Exchange 09, economist Steve Keen looks at the rising national debts in Australia and the United States, paying particular attention to their historical relationship with recessions, growth and unemployment. He suggests that the levels of debt in b... » play video -
SlowTV: The world economy at 20. Mark Thirlwell
Mark Thirlwell | Sydney | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 November 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This also makes it the 20th anniversary of the birth of the new global economy. At this Lowy Institute presentation, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute’s international economy program, looked at some o... » play video -
SlowTV: The Great Crash of 2008. Featuring Ross Garnaut
Ross Garnaut | Canberra | Oct. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Great Crash of 2008 by eminent economist Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, examines the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our ti... » play video -
SlowTV: Robert Manne: Is Neo-liberalism finished?
Robert Manne | Melbourne | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 Do ideas matter? For the past thirty years faith in the free market has dominated most Western societies. After September 2008, with the collapse of the unregulated global market in financial products, the faith has been shaken. In this lecture at the Melbourne Writers Festival Ro... » play video -
SlowTV: A Copenhagen Price Collar. Warwick McKibbin
Warwick McKibbin | Sydney | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2As we approach the Copenhagen global negotiations on emissions reductions, economist Warwick McKibbin looks at recent approaches to the issue and where they have failed. The Kyoto protocol focused on commitments of developed countries with an exclusive goal of emission reductions from... » play video -
SlowTV: Reshaping global economic geography. Truman Packard
Truman Packard | Sydney | Aug. 2009
Presenting the findings of the World Bank Development Report which he co-authored, Senior Economist Dr Truman Packard looks at the geography of economic development and how spatial factors affect development potential."Trying to spread out economic activity can hinder growth and does little to f... » play video
