Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut presented the 2023 Corden Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne, on Tuesday, October 10, 2023.
International economic dimensions of Australia’s participation in the global transition to net zero
Max Corden’s life’s work has greatly enhanced our understanding of the interactions between the international and the domestic economy, and the benefits of open international exchange. This lecture presented by Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut, examines international dimensions of Australia’s participation in the global transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions—from a world in which it is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil energy, to one in which it is potentially the world’s largest exporter of goods embodying zero emissions energy. Old wisdom from international macroeconomics and trade is centrally important to success in the new zero-carbon economy.
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About the speaker
Ross Garnaut is an Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has been a Distinguished Professor of Economics at The Australian National University and a Research Professor in Economics at the Melbourne Institute.
His most recent books are Superpower: Australia’s Low Carbon Opportunity (2019); Reset: Restoring Australia After the Pandemic Recession (2021); and The Superpower Transformation: Building Australia’s Zero-carbon Economy (2022). He jointly authored The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump (2017) with Max Corden.
About the lecture series
The Corden Public Lecture Series is named after Emeritus Professor Max Corden, one of Australia’s most famous economists. Professor Corden contributed to the field of economics through his work and his long and extensive teaching career, during which he shaped the thinking of many of today’s great economists. He is known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the Dutch disease model of international trade. He has also been active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics.