By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2010
The departure of Nick Minchin from the frontbench has been accompanied by speculation that Tony Abbott should move Barnaby Joyce from Finance to Energy and Resources, the portfolio Minchin had occupied. Joyce is said to have expertise in this area, [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Barnaby Joyce, Christopher Pearson, economic management, economic policy, finance, Henry Tax review, ideology, liberalism, National Broadband Network, Nick Minchin, resources rent, schools, social democracy, statism, stimulus, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on July 9, 2009
If Kevin Rudd wanted to impress Pope Benedict with his support for Blessed Mary MacKillop’s canonisation, he might have picked the wrong topic. In the lead up to the G20 meeting, the Pontiff had other things on his mind – [...]
Posted in Developing world, Economics, Ethics, International, Politics, Religion | Tagged Capitalism, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Developing world, encyclical, finance, G20, global financial crisis, globalisation, Italy, Kevin Rudd, Mary Mackillop, Pope Benedict XVI, social teaching, social thought |
By Ben Eltham on March 24, 2009
Wall Street and and the ASX have rallied hard in approval of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s bank rescue plan. In this post I am going to examine the Geithner plan, try and describe and explain what it is, and [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged bail-out, Brad DeLong, Economics, finance, global financial crisis, Gregory Mankiw, Paul Krugman, subprime, TALF, TARP, Timothy Geithner, toxic assets |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2009
A lot of commentary in the US has focused on both the politics of Barack Obama’s stimulus package and on the TARP II bailout announced by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last week. In developments which somewhat parallel the Australian debate [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged actor network theory, barack obama, cultural economics, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, epistemology, finance, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Friedmanites, global financial crisis, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Malcolm Turnbull, Milton Friedman, Republicans, Senate, social cartography, Sociology, Tim Geithner |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 22, 2009
In a piece in today’s Crikey sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s remarks about the difficulty Australian banks are having accessing foreign capital, Bernard Keane makes some good points about the response to the global financial crisis: Rudd’s rather anodyne response [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Policy | Tagged banks, bernard keane, economic policy, Economics, finance, financial sector, global financial crisis, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, nationalisation, neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Rudd government |
By dk.au on December 9, 2008
The big questions for those in Poznan are those around financing. In what ways do existing instruments need reform? What novel measures could be devised to reign in emissions growth in areas like air and sea transport? So it was [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Howardia, Markets, Sociology, Technology | Tagged aesthetics, CDM, Climate change, development, finance, modernism, modernity, Photography, Sociology, UNFCCC |
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