Join Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz for a discussion on how taxing resources fairly would benefit the Australian economy.
Professor Joseph Stiglitz is visiting Australia as a guest of the Australia Institute, as part of their 30th anniversary celebrations in 2024. Boffins Books will be there as official bookseller.
Australia is the third largest exporter of fossil fuels in the world and one of the world's largest exporters of liquified natural gas. Around 80% of gas produced in Australia is exported, over half of it royalty-free. No royalties are paid on two thirds of the gas exported from WA.
As a country, is Australia getting a fair return on the sale of its collective resources?
And how can Australia use taxation to get a fair share of our fossil fuel resources?
Join world-leading economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz for this important event.
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and best-selling author. Professor Stiglitz is an economist and a professor at Columbia University Business School, as well as co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Professor Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, and he was the recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize in 2018 - for leading a global conversation about the crisis caused by economic inequality and exposing the violence inflicted by market fundamentalism. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is also the author of numerous best-selling books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.
