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Richard Denniss

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Richard Denniss

co-Chief Executive Officer

co-Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Institute, Dr Richard Denniss is a prominent Australian economist, author and public policy commentator, and has spent the last twenty years moving between policy-focused roles in academia, federal politics and think-tanks.

He was also a Lecturer in Economics at the university of Newcastle and former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at ANU. He is a regular contributor to The Monthly and the author of several books including: Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next?

Research by Richard Denniss

Participating in growth: Free childcare and increased participation

The provision of free childcare provides the rarest of economic policy opportunities – it’s both an effective form of fiscal

By Matt Grudnoff, Richard Denniss

Are Wages or Profits Driving Australia’s Inflation?

Labour costs have played an insignificant role in the recent increase in inflation, accounting for just 15 percent of economy

By David Richardson, Matt Saunders, Richard Denniss

Profit share

The roles of profits, wages and costs in driving inflation has been widely discussed in recent months. Claims by the

By David Richardson, Richard Denniss

Profit-Price Inflation: Theory, International Evidence, and Policy Implications

New research confirms that higher corporate profits still account for most of the rise in economy-wide unit prices in Australia

By Jim Stanford, Richard Denniss, Matt Grudnoff, Greg Jericho, David Richardson, Matt Saunders