by Deborah Hardoon | Feb 23, 2017 | Issue 1, Journal, Papers, Volume 16
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. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this...
by Andrew Leigh | Nov 24, 2016 | Issue 8, Journal, Papers, Volume 15
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. We rarely stand up when the prime minister enters the room, and prefer to pay a decent...
by Chris Bowen | Oct 11, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 15
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 last quarter of a century and is going to be equally important to keeping our...
by Andrew Mack | Oct 11, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 15
‘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 brilliant and effective voice of the Small Powers, a leading statesman for the...
by Frank Stilwell | Aug 24, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
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. These growing gaps have resulted primarily from the phenomenal growth in the income and...
by Russell Jacoby | Aug 24, 2016 | Issue 4, Journal, Papers, Volume 13
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 is a tome that unexpectedly captures the zeitgeist. Few read all of Bloom’s volume—for the...
