Big Ideas

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

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September 10, 2024 2:00am

56m

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.

Speakers

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

Ebony Bennett Deputy Director, The Australia Institute