Join Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz, in conversation with The Australia Institute’s Dr Richard Denniss and Ebony Bennett.

Inequality creates insecurity. As the United States is showing the rest of the world, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

Yet still governments get it wrong as they race to the bottom on corporate tax. Big Gas, Big Tech and others are enriching themselves at the same time as governments are eroding social safety nets.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Join Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss, and Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett to discuss why corporate tax is good – and why democracies should be collecting more of it.

SPEAKERS:

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz — Nobel Prize-winning economist

Professor E. Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and best-selling author. Professor Stiglitz is an economist and a professor at Columbia University Business School, as well as co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

Professor Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, and he was the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize in 2018 – for leading a global conversation about the crisis caused by economic inequality and exposing the violence inflicted by market fundamentalism. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is also the author of numerous best-selling books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.

Dr Richard Denniss — co-Chief Executive Officer, The Australia Institute

Richard Denniss is co-CEO of the Australia Institute. He is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and has spent the last twenty years moving between policy-focused roles in academia, federal politics and think-tanks. He was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Newcastle and former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is a regular contributor to The Monthly and the author of several books including: Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?

Ebony Bennett — Deputy Director, The Australia Institute

Ebony Bennett is Deputy Director of the Australia Institute. Beginning her career as a journalist in the Canberra press gallery, Ebony has worked in federal politics for two decades and has published research on climate change and energy, gender and street harassment and contributed to Morrison’s Miracle: The 2019 Australian Federal Election (ANU Press 2020) and The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia (MUP 2021). Ebony is a regular commentator and contributor across broadcast and print media, she appears regularly as a commentator on ABC and Sky News and has a fortnightly column in The Canberra Times.