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Gas, tax and the free market — with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Gas, tax and the free market — with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Update: 2024-09-10
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The idea of "freedom" is one that's often used in relation to the economy: we have "the free market" and "free trade agreements", freedom from regulation, from government intervention, and so on. But whose freedom are we talking about, and at whose expense?

This event was recorded at the Perth Town Hall on 14 August 2024.

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Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Columbia University Business SchoolAuthor, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

Ebony Bennett Deputy Director, The Australia Institute

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Gas, tax and the free market — with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Gas, tax and the free market — with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Australian Broadcasting Corporation