ECONOMICS | The Monthly

May 2013

The Tyranny of Affluence. George Megalogenis and Geoffrey Blainey

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Australia may not suffer from the tyranny of distance (the phrase originally coined by Geoffrey Blainey) now so much as the tyranny of affluence. We are one of the very wealthiest...

March 2013

Paul Keating, on the changes to the Australian economy, 1980-2008

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Speaking at the launch of his biography, Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution (David Love, Scribe), Keating demonstrates the undeniable force of his...

March 2013

The limits to growth: 2009. Dr Graham Turner

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The Limits to Growth, published in 1972, was a landmark publication when released, one of the first studies to link the world economy with the state of the environment. At the...

March 2013

Fran Baum: Is capitalism good for our health?

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In this talk at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, health researcher and WHO Commissioner Professor Fran Baum discusses the determining factors of our mental and physical health,...

March 2013

Fair share. Judith Brett and Don Watson

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In her new Quarterly Essay, Fair Share: Country and City in Australia, Judith Brett explores an increasingly problematic division in Australia. As she tells Don Watson in this...

March 2013

On the future of the book. James Gleick

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For some kinds of books the writing is on the wall, but the concept of the book itself will survive, adapting to new technologies in the delivery of words, argues James Gleick in...

'How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly – And the Stark Choices Ahead' By Dambisa Moyo

By John Edwards

Dambisa Moyo’s 2009 bestselling attack on development assistance to poor countries, Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa, was sufficiently successful to win her a spot among TIME magazine’s “100 most influential people in the w