Bio

John Quiggin is a Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland, and a fellow with the Centre for Policy Development. He is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He blogs at: http://www.johnquiggin.com/

John Quiggin's contributions:

The risk society

CPD fellow John Quiggin examines the role of government as the ultimate risk manager. He argues that risk will be the defining concept of the 21st century, the way that globalisation was for the 1990s.

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Beer, Cigs, Same — Budget loses the limelight

Budgets used to be the central focus of debate over macroeconomic policy and the likely outlook for unemployment and inflation, writes John Quiggin. This is now done by monetary policy, which has killed off public debate about macroeconomic issues. If things should go badly wrong, the policy debate will need to be restarted from scratch

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