Vol. 15, No. 9
NEWS & VIEWS
Three landmark 2016 reports
Inequality and productivity, trade, and the national accounts. More →
Trade after Trump
Telling the truth has become a revolutionary act, says Melissa Parke. More →
Wages
World earnings growth lowest since 2012, reports the UN. More →
Evatt AGM
President's report 2016
Christopher Sheil review's the year. More →
New life members
Jeannette McHugh and Bruce Childs honoured at Evatt AGM. More →
Vol. 15, No. 8
NEWS & VIEWS
The US election
Thomas Piketty on globalisation post-Trump. More →
Bill Shorten draws the lessons of Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania. More →
The Obama coalition can still work, argues Robert Borosage. More →
The United States needs a movement, writes Chris Lehmann. More →
Inequality
Andrew Leigh counts the cost of inequality. More →
New research: as Australia's cities grow, so does inequality. More →
Peter Barnes explains how to create a bottom-up stimulus machine. More →
Sydney Peace Prize
Naomi Klein's lecture on accepting the 2016 prize. More →
Vol. 15, No. 7
News & views
An inheritance tax on the Top 5%
Frank Stilwell discusses an inheritance tax on Weekend Sunrise. More →
An Australian inheritance tax?
An inheritance tax makes perfect sense, says Thomas Piketty. More →
Evatt on Piketty's Australian visit at the Conversation:
Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality, by Frank Stilwell More →
Is Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ really the most unread bestseller? by Christopher Sheil More →
Vol. 15, No. 6
News, views & papers
Evatt's international legacy
Andrew Mack imagines a more independent foreign policy. More →
The case for openness
Chris Bowen looks at the other side of the coin. More →
The Euro, globalisation & democracy
Joseph Stiglitz speaks with Richard Eskow about his new book. More →
Vol. 15, No. 5
Piketty & his work
Piketty's political economy
Review article by Christopher Sheil. More →
Piketty v. Marx
Piketty points to distribution, Marx to production, explains Russell Jacoby. More →
The book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
All the links to the book's reception, interviews, discussion, and everything else. More →
Has capitalism run its course?
A conversation between David Graeber and Thomas Piketty. More →
Piketty, inequality & Australia
The Wealth of the Nation
Adopting some key parts of Piketty's analytic framework, Evatt's new report marshals the available evidence to show the clearest possible current picture of wealth inequality among Australian households. More →
Contesting inequality
Has Australia arrived at a turning-point, asks Frank Stilwell. More →
Battlers & billionaires
Australia's egalitarian ethos is endangered, warns Andrew Leigh. More →
Evatt & inequality elsewhere
Land of the fair go no more
Christopher Sheil and Frank Stilwell at The Conversation. More →
Wealth inequality in Australia
Frank Stilwell at Progress in Political Economy. More →
Vol. 15, No. 4
The US election
Robert L. Borage reviews Hillary & Bill
The Big Dawg still can howl. More →
Obama's oration
The president takes a long view. More →
Proud to stand with her
Bernie Sanders' speech. More →
Iraq II
The Chilcot Report
Has Australia arrived at a turning-point, asks Frank Stilwell. More →
Inequality
Targetting health inequality
The perils of place by Stephen Duckett. More →
Vol. 15, No. 3
Jobs and growth: Turnbull's mirage
Malcolm Turnbull is pinning his hopes for the forthcoming election largely on economic imagery. He wants to be seen as 'a safe pair of hands' committed to producing more jobs and growth in the Australian economy. But what lies behind the smooth imagery? Effectively just one main policy -- to cut the business tax rate. It is a huge gamble which would see the government collecting about $50 billion less revenue over the next 10 years.
Will this policy actually benefit the Australian economy? Frank Stilwell says there are nine reasons to think not.
The Wealth of the Nation: New Evatt report
Australia as a whole has become much wealthier since 1970, with the total stock of capital growing about twice as fast as national income during the years since then. But inequality has markedly increased during this same period, and continues to increase. Currently the poorest 40% of Australian households have effectively no wealth at all: about half of them actually have negative net wealth because of their personal debts. At the opposite pole, the wealthiest 10% of Australian households have more than half the nation's total wealth. The Top 1% of households alone has at least 15 per cent of the nation's wealth. This affluent elite – the Top 10% and especially the Top 1% – is getting cumulatively richer, not only relative to poor households but also, significantly, in relation to the next 50% of households. Two fault lines are widening – between the bottom 40% and the rest, and between the Top 10% and the 50% in the middle. Dealing with this situation is perhaps the biggest challenge facing our political leaders today.
Read the overview and download the full report →
Vol. 15, No. 2
New Evatt report: The Wealth of the Nation
The Wealth of the Nation
The Top 10% now own at least 50 per cent of Australia's household wealth. More →
Read the overview of the new Evatt report by Christopher Sheil and Frank Stilwell. More →
Vol. 15, No. 1
News, views & papers
From the Paris climate talks
Lesley Hughes reports back. More →
Peace, anti-nukes & Tom Uren
Reflections on the establishment of the Tom Uren Memorial Fund. More →
Inequality: beyond all bounds
The top 1% now own more than the rest of us combined. More →