Canberra
Richard Denniss
Executive Director
Executive Director 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?
Latest Research
Profit-Price Inflation: Theory, International Evidence, and Policy Implications
Profits need to come down to reduce inflation and allow real wages to recover
Profit share
Exploring data on profits in the Australian economy
Are Wages or Profits Driving Australia’s Inflation?
An analysis of the National Accounts