An economy for the 99%
by Deborah Hardoon | Feb 23, 2017
New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society—especially the poorest—suffers....
Counting the cost of inequality
by Andrew Leigh | Nov 24, 2016
Just Ideas #1One of the many things I love about Australia is our egalitarian ethos. We’re a nation that doesn’t have private areas on our beaches, and likes using the word mate....
The case for openness
by Chris Bowen | Oct 11, 2016
Two weeks ago in Sydney I gave a speech entitled 'The Case for Openness’, in which I argued that openness to trade and immigration has been vital to our economic success over the...
Evatt’s international legacy
by Andrew Mack | Oct 11, 2016
'When Dr Evatt came [to the UN] he was a virtually unknown second-string delegate, with the background of a professor and Labor politician. He leaves, recognized as the most...
Contesting inequality
by Frank Stilwell | Aug 24, 2016
An alternative to Hockey’s budget agenda As followers of the Evatt Foundation website will be well aware, economic inequalities have been increasing in many countries....
Piketty v. Marx
by Russell Jacoby | Aug 24, 2016
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is as much a sociological as an intellectual phenomenon. Like Allan Bloom’s 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, it...
Battlers & billionaires
by Andrew Leigh | Aug 24, 2016
Australian egalitarianism under threatIn 2002, two bombs exploded in Bali nightclubs, killing and injuring hundreds of people. At the local hospital, there was a shortage of...
Proud to stand with her
by Bernie Sanders | Aug 1, 2016
Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively participated in our campaign as volunteers. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund...
The Big Dawg still can howl
by Robert Borosage | Aug 1, 2016
In the spring of 1971, I met a girl…” Thus began Bill Clinton’s charming, personal portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and a speech that showed a master at the top of his...
Obama’s oration
by Barack Obama | Aug 1, 2016
So 12 years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. (Applause.) You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha -- now two amazing young women...