Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2008: Alan Woodland

This citation acknowledges Professor Alan Woodland as an eminent Australian economist and surveys his exceptional international record of scholarship and research with a selection of his insightful contributions to the understanding of the complex issues of international trade, taxation and welfare. These issues are at the forefront of our nation's economic priorities and it is appropriate that we formally recognise his outstanding contributions to the discipline study of economics with the award of Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.     

Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2007: Yew-Kwang Ng

This article surveys the work of Yew-Kwang Ng who, in 2007, was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. Emphasis is given to the distinctive, wide ranging and original aspects of his work.     

Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, 2006: Maureen Brunt

This paper briefly outlines the many achievements of Professor Maureen Brunt, who was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia in 2006. It describes both her academic career, and her major contributions to competition law in Australia and New Zealand.     

和谐社会:体系、关键和经济着力点——著名经济学家常修泽教授访谈录

在今年的全国“两会”上,“构建和谐社会”是代表议论最热、举国关注最多的主题之一。那么,基于我国国情,特别是新阶段我国经济社会发展的新特点,应当如何把握和谐社会的精神实质,并努力构建和谐社会呢?最近,笔者通过电子邮件就这些问题向著名经济学家常修泽教授请教,几番往来,遂成一篇专题访谈。     

The Future Welfare Burden; Scottish Economic Society/Royal Bank of Scotland Annual Lecture, 1998

For the last quarter of the twentieth century, in the UK and much of the rest of the developed world, the scale of the future welfare burden has been at the heart of political and economic debate. After a century of largely tax funded growth, through periods of enormous demographic, social and economic change, concerns about the possibility or consequences of further growth began to be voiced more and more frequently and across a wider political range. Perhaps because the welfare state is so emotive a subject, much of the debate has been rather vague, and on occasion confused and ill-informed. Our aim in this paper is to set out the context for a coherent debate about what happens next.     

和谐社会的经济哲学

本文从经济学确实有派别之分出发,认为构建和谐社会要有和谐哲学来指导。建立和谐社会,一要使各种所有制协调发展,二要正确处理好公平与效率之间的关系,三要坚持公私兼顾、劳资两利这一处理经济矛盾的原则。最后还提出了工会组织改官办为民办之意见。     

New Economic Indicators for Australia, 1949-84

This article attempts to identify and describe the main characteristics of Australia'a business cycles during the period 1949 to 7984 with the aid of leading, coincident, and lagging indicators, using the methodology of the International Economic lndicator project at the Center for lnternational Business Cycle Research, Columbia University, New York. The methodology to identify Australia's classical cycle and growth cycle chronologies is discussed. Reviews are made of the lead-lag patterns of, first, both chronologies in relation to the specific cycles of the individual coincident indicators, and second, the growth chronology in relation to the leading and lagging indicators. Australia's growth cycle chronology is compared with the chronology of other countries, notably of United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. The general uses of an indicator analysis are reviewed. An appendix compares the reference cycle chronologies previously available for Australia and the indicators used to obtain them.