Date 04 Mar, 2020
Time 2.30pm
Cost FREE
Venue Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, Adelaide SA, Australia
This event is part of Adelaide Writers’ Week.
In The Politics of the Common Good, Jane R Goodall argues that we are caught in the throes of a neoliberalism that fails to value the wellbeing of a community. Human welfare comes second to budget surpluses. John Quiggin’s Economics in Two Lessons posits that those very surpluses are only achieved by obscuring the true cost of economic activity; that the much-vaunted markets ignore social opportunity costs. These two authors ask: to what do we ascribe a value in Australia and to what cost?
Chaired by Copyright Agency CEO Adam Suckling.