Dead Duck Or Just Resting: Has Economic Liberalism Run Into a Dead End?
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WILSON DIALOGUE Dead duck or just resting: Has economic liberalism run into a dead end? Tuesday 30 May 5.30 – 6.30pm Speakers Professor Bruce Chapman AO Sir Roland Wilson Chair of Economics Research School of Economics Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Statistics ANU College of Business & Economics Dr Ken Henry AC Chair, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Ms Laura Tingle Political Editor, Australian Financial Review Professor Helen Sullivan Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, Former Prime Minister Paul Keating recently declared that liberal economics ANU no longer holds the answers to our problems. Is this the case? If so, what new Location paradigm is needed to lift the world economy out of its current malaise? If not, what needs to be done to revitalise economies and societies? And what does The Auditorium all this mean for Australia and the Australian Public Service? China in the World Building (188) Fellows Lane, ANU Hosted by Professor Bruce Chapman AM, inaugural SRW Chair of Economics, Registration required our expert panel will address these questions and provide their views on one of the most controversial debates of our time. www.eventbrite.com.au Professor Bruce Chapman AO is the inaugural Sir Roland Wilson Chair of Economics. E [email protected] He has extensive experience in public policy having helped design the HECS policy, as a senior economic adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, and as an adviser to the World T 02 6125 4127 Bank, the OECD and the governments of a large number of countries. This forum is free and open to the public Dr Ken Henry AC is the Chair of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation. He served as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011 and was Chair of both the Howard Government’s Taxation Taskforce (1997-1998) and the Review into Australia’s The Wilson Dialogues is our series of public Future Tax System commissioned by the Rudd Government (2008-09). He is currently the events where contemporary public policy Chair of the National Australia Bank. issues are explored and discussed by the Ms Laura Tingle is political editor of the Australian Financial Review. She won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism in 2004, and Walkley awards in Presented by 2005 and 2011. In 2010 she was shortlisted for the John Button Prize for political writing. She appears regularly on Radio National’s Late Night Live and ABC-TV’s Insiders. Sir Roland Wilson Professor Helen Sullivan is the Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Prior to this position, she was Professor and Director of the Foundation Melbourne School of Government. Professor Sullivan has also held leadership roles in the United Kingdom, and is an internationally-recognised expert in democratic accountability The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation was and the evaluation of government policy. funded by the ANU, the Wilson family More information about the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation: srwfoundation.anu.edu.au/ estate and the Commonwealth to advance the study and development of public policy. CRICOS# 00120C.