Crunchtime”: Bringing together the best policy minds to discuss Australia’s future

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Title: “Crunchtime”: Bring­ing togeth­er the best pol­i­cy minds to dis­cuss Aus­trali­a’s future
Loca­tion: Trades Hall Audi­to­ri­um, 4 Goul­burn St, Syd­ney NSW
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Descrip­tion: The best pol­i­cy thinkers from Aus­tralia and abroad will come togeth­er for “Crunchtime” — Aus­trali­a’s first pro­gres­sive think-tank con­fer­ence.

Tax, social pol­i­cy, the glob­al finan­cial cri­sis and cli­mate change will be pulled apart by impres­sive pol­i­cy minds includ­ing Ann Pet­ti­for from Advo­ca­cy Inter­na­tion­al in the UK. Ann has writ­ten exten­sive­ly on debt and finance, cli­mate change and inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment and was one of the authors of the UK nation­al eco­nom­ic foundation’s Green New Deal.

Local speak­ers include CPD fel­lows Steve Keen, David McK­night and Mark Davis.

The event coin­cides with the half way point of fed­er­al Labor’s term, and is one year on from the 2020 Ideas Sum­mit. It will pro­vide an oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­sid­er the impact of the glob­al finan­cial cri­sis and to dis­cuss the val­ues that should dri­ve future pol­i­cy.
Start Date: 2009-04-22
Start Time: 9:00
End Date: 2009-04-23
End Time: 17:00

I will con­tribute to one work­shop (3.10–4.30pm on Wednes­day 22nd) on “Respon­si­ble Mar­kets”, along with Dr Lindy Edwards, Aus­tralian Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty, and Dr John Quig­gan, Queens­land Uni­ver­si­ty (by vide­olink).

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About Steve Keen

I am Professor of Economics and Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University London, and a long time critic of conventional economic thought. As well as attacking mainstream thought in Debunking Economics, I am also developing an alternative dynamic approach to economic modelling. The key issue I am tackling here is the prospect for a debt-deflation on the back of the enormous private debts accumulated globally, and our very low rate of inflation.