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Tag Archives: inequality
Video of speech for the Victorian Fabians
Here’s a speech I gave on the economics of inequality at the AGM of the Victorian Fabians. The speech notes are below the video. Warwick Smith from Australian Fabians Inc. (AFI) on Vimeo. Speech notes from Per Capita’s Medium page. … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality, Speech
Tagged class, history, history of economics, inequality, philosophy, politics
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History suggests Australia could be left behind by the next industrial revolution
Warwick Smith, and Mitchell Eddy, University of Melbourne Originally published in The Conversation. This article was co-authored by Mitchell Eddy who has recently completed a Masters of International Relations at the University of Melbourne that included a placement at the … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, Inequality
Tagged industrial revolution, industry, inequality, politics, The Conversation
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The budget is the greatest moral challenge of our time? Bollocks
By Warwick Smith All the assertions in Malcolm Turnbull’s statement about the budget being a fundamental moral challenge are flawed. Let’s look at them one at a time This article was originally published in The Guardian. The prime minister, Malcolm … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, Economic theory
Tagged government budget, government debt, inequality, Malcolm Turnbull, The Guardian
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Tax and tax reform in Australia – appearance on Radio National’s Rear Vision
I was one of four guests on RN’s Rear Vision special on tax reform. You can download the audio here. A sample my contribution to the program is below. Keri Phillips: Warwick Smith is a research economist at the University … Continue reading
Joe Hockey’s unscripted moments of truth reveal what the Government really thinks – The Age
By Warwick Smith Originally published by The Age on September 3, 2015 – 12:17PM. Talk of throwing Hockey to the wolves is worrying. After all, it’s his slip-of-the-truth lines that give us a glimpse of the Government’s real agenda: only the rich … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, Inequality, Op-ed, Political philosophy
Tagged Ayn Rand, budget, class, inequality, Joe Hockey, The Age
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Conservative ideology and the Intergenerational Report: why Hockey had to remove all reference to inequality
By Warwick Smith A search of the government’s recently released Intergenerational Report for the word “inequality” yields zero results. The same is true for “income distribution” and “wealth distribution”. This is not surprising because conservatives are basically forced by their … Continue reading
Hockey’s G20 plan says economic growth is more important than a civilized and humane world
By Warwick Smith Punishing the unemployed in Australia for the lack of available jobs is not enough, Joe Hockey wants all of the G20 countries to adopt his cruel policies. The Australian Government’s growth strategy prepared for this month’s G20 … Continue reading
Joe Hockey fights to claw back a little for the overburdened wealthy
By Warwick Smith Originally published at The AIM NetworkAugust 11, 2014 If Joe Hockey’s first budget wasn’t enough to convince people that the government was going into bat for the nation’s wealthy, then Joe himself has surely confirmed this with … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, political economy, tax economics
Tagged Economic policy, inequality, taxation, The AIMN, welfare
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My article in today’s Guardian – The United States of Australia?
Are we witnessing the emergence of the United States of Australia? Australia can have its cake and eat it too, because a healthy and materially secure population will repay enormous economic dividends. Instead, we’re going further down the US pathin … Continue reading
Budget vision
By Warwick Smith No other event equals the release of a federal budget for a clear statement of what the government really intends for the country. Almost everything else they do is smoke and mirrors. The budget tells us who … Continue reading
Posted in Australian politics, Economic theory, Inequality, political economy
Tagged budget, Economic policy, inequality, politics
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Reconstructing Economics 