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Asset Price Bubbles and Financial Markets
Crisis Commentary Lecture
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Dr Stephen Kirchner and Dr Jason Potts
Running time: 61 mins
'Bubbles', or episodes of pronounced asset price inflation and deflation, have occurred in a wide-range of markets in recent years. Bubbles are characterised by irrational or herd-like behaviour, resulting in asset prices becoming disconnected from fundamentals. What constitutes a bubble? How should policymakers respond to them? Are bubbles ultimately harmful or just symptomatic of the innovation and entrepreneurship essential to long-run economic growth?
Dr Stephen Kirchner, Research Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies and author of the CIS Policy Monograph Bubble Poppers: Monetary Policy and the Myth of ‘Bubbles’ in Asset Prices and Dr Jason Potts, senior Economics lecturer at the University of Queensland, discuss this issue.
Stern Hu and Stern China: Why Beijing did it and what it means for Australia-China Political Relations
CIS Lecture
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Dr John Lee and Paul Kelly
Running time: 64 mins
Since the arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu in mid July, Beijing has stood firm by reiterating several times that evidence against Mr. Hu for commercial espionage causing massive losses to the Chinese state is serious and irrefutable. What has Stern Hu actually done, why has China chosen to charge Mr. Hu and others for espionage, rather than commercial theft, and what will the consequences of this action be for diplomatic and political relations between Australia and China? Join research fellow at CIS and visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, Dr John Lee and Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large of The Australian, as they discuss this issue.
The Accidental Guerilla - David Killcullen
CIS Lunch
Friday September 4th 2009
Dr. David Kilcullen
Running time: 50 mins
Dr. David Kilcullen joined CIS for lunch to discuss his recent book The Accidental Guerilla, whichhas been reviewed as a 'rare and indispensible guide to understanding and winning the so-called 'war on terror''. Newsweek describes it as 'required reading for every American soldier, as well as anyone involved in the war on terror. Kilcullen's central concept of the 'accidental guerrilla' is brilliant and the policy prescriptions that flow from it important.' Dr Kilcullen, formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Army and a Chief Strategist for the US State Department, was also a former visiting fellow of the CIS.
Enemies of Progress?
Big Ideas Forum 2009
Monday, 10 August 2009
Austin Williams, Dr Patrick Michaels and Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich
Running time: 93 mins
Where humanity once solved the world's problems, we are now viewed as the source. We no longer take pride in dynamic progress to benefit mankind; we bemoan the so-called carbon footprint that this progress will leave. Experimentation and entrepreneurship are being replaced by conformity and rules, and we are becoming a panicky, sensationalist and risk-averse society. Doom and disaster merchants, feeding off genuine crises such as the current financial crash, stymie big ideas and development and encourage government intervention and restrictions. From the optimism and grand thinking of the Victorians to the current day pessimism, what has happened to the idea of progress?
Rising Unemployment and the Risk of Long-term Welfare Dependency
CIS Lecture
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Andrew Southcott MP
Running time: 59 mins
Will rising unemployment inevitably mean an increase in long-term welfare dependency? What policies can be put in place to safeguard against this? Andrew Southcott MP, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Training and Sport and Federal Member for Boothby puts forward his perspective on the issue.
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