
Canberra
Richard Denniss
Chief Economist
Chief economist and former 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
Wage price spiral or price wage spiral?
The role of profits in causing inflation
Permanent and Political
an analysis of Federal Government spending post-pandemic
Dam bad ideas
The lack of economic evidence for dam building in Australia