
Canberra
Richard Denniss
Executive Director
Executive Director of the Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss 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 also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle and former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. 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?
Latest Research
Self-funded or State-funded Retirees?
The cost of super tax concessions
Commission Impossible
Commissioned modelling of the economic impact of the Australian Building and Construction Commission
Safeguarding fossil fuels: Submission
Submission to the Safeguard Mechanism Reforms Consultation paper
Shorting the Environment
Submission to the proposed voluntary national biodiversity market
Profit share
Exploring data on profits in the Australian economy