Yearly Archives: 2017
Why study economics?
Economics and Economists | 23rd October 2017A short video for the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, at the University of Tasmania
Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on the GST revenue distribution formula
Australian Society and Politics, News | 10th October 2017Brian Carlton | Tasmania Talks | 10th October 2017 Interview with Northern Tasmania commercial radio’s Brian Carlton on the Productivity Commission’s draft report into the distribution of revenue from the GST among Australia’s State and Territory Governments (otherwise known as ‘horizontal fiscal equalization’), 10th October 2017 A productivity commission report has recommended that changes be […]
Leading economist Saul Eslake strikes gold with his adopted family
News, Profile | 26th September 2017Anne Mather | Hobart Mercury | 26th September 2017 Saul Eslake, with his wife Linda Arenella and two children Caroline Eslake, 15, and Jonathan Eslake, 10, says rhetoric about “gold standard” families can be offensive. Picture: Richard Jupe HE may be best known as a numbers man, but Saul Eslake has some ideas about family […]
The Australian economy, interest rates and household debt
The Australian Economy | 20th September 2017Presentation to a forum hosted by Kessler Financial Services Australia in Melbourne on 20th September 2017
The World Today – a Global Macro-economic and Political Perspective
The Global Economy | 19th September 2017Presentation to an investor conference in Queenstown, New Zealand, on 19th September 2017, hosted by HRL Morrison & Co
Economic Trends and Opportunities for Australian Agriculture
Commodities, The Australian Economy | 12th September 2017Presentation to a Farm Business Update hosted by the Grains Research and Development Corporation in Adelaide, 12th September 2017
Local Government in the Macro-Economic Picture
Economic Policies | 11th September 2017Presentation to the Local Government New South Wales Finance Summit in Sydney on 11th September 2017, focussing on the role and financing of infrastructure investment
Inequality, Inefficiency and Australia’s System of ‘Horizontal Fiscal Equalization’
Australian Society and Politics, Economic Policies | 29th August 2017Keynote address to a Workshop on Federal Relations and Tax Reform hosted by the University of Adelaide’s School of Economics, in Adelaide on 29th August.