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Announcing latest AWGF Seminar - Friday 28th November
The Great Bailout: An Evaluation of Financial Bailouts
with guest speakers Tony Aspromourgos and Dick BryanFriday 28th November,1:30pm
Workplace Research Centre
We are currently witnessing an enormous financial rescue of the banking systems in many of the world’s leading industrialised countries. Commentators are scrambling for comparisons with earlier banking and financial crises such as the Great Depression, and many are calling for a new international monetary order (a new Bretton Woods), but much of the current analyses has been shallow and the basis of comparisons often tenuous. This seminar seeks to situate the current financial crisis in a longer historical and analytical perspective, considering what is distinctive about these turbulent times as well as what it shares with earlier financial and monetary crises. It will analyse current bailouts, what they tell us about the present state of the financial system and our understanding of it.
About the Speakers
Professor Tony Aspromourgos is a graduate of the universities of Queensland, Melbourne, Chicago and Sydney. He has published extensively in international economic journals - including Australian Economic Papers, Oxford Economic Papers, and the Review of Political Economy - and is the author of The Science of Wealth: Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy, Routledge, London, 2009. Tony’s research interests include classical economics, long-period theory, and monetary economics.
Dick Bryan is co-convenor of the AWGF. His primary research interests relate to international capital and financial movements and, within a globally-integrated economic system, the construction of national economic identity.
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2008 Australia at Work - Working Lives: Statistics and Stories Report
Read the second report of a five year study of over 8000 Australian workers. One the eve of the financial crisis, the majority (85 per cent) of workers said they had debts such as mortgages and credit cards. One in five said they could not make their repayments on time, representing around 1.9 million workers. The report has also found that 'standard' employment has deteriorated. Download the report for free to find out more. More information about the Australia at Work project can be found on the Australia at Work website.
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