
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
Profit-Price Inflation: Theory, International Evidence, and Policy Implications
Profits need to come down to reduce inflation and allow real wages to recover
Stuck in the Slow Lane
Electrification of buses in Australia
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