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REPORT RELEASED
November 2006
Climate Change, Industrial Structure and the Knowledge Economy: Key
Issues for an Effective Response on Greenhouse Gases The CSES has now
released its Final Report of the ARC Linkage Project on Climate Change.
Industry partners were the Department of Industry, Tourism and
Resources, Business Council of Australia, and the Australian Greenhouse
Office. The project also produced 11 papers.
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BOOK LAUNCH
July
2006
Engaging the New World: Responses to the
Knowledge Economy The Vice-Chancellor of
Victoria University, Professor Elizabeth Harman welcomed the Hon. Simon Crean MP to launch the new CSES book 'Engaging the New World: Responses
to the Knowledge Economy', on Wednesday 12 July at the VU Conference
Centre (City Flinders Campus.). The function was attended by a large
number of friends and colleagues of Peter Sheehan, and staff and students
from the CSES. Click here for a
transcript of
Simon Crean's address. In this recent volume produced at the CSES
and published by Melbourne University Press, leading economic analysts discuss the wide-ranging
impact of the information economy - on education, health care,
pharmaceuticals, public finance, regional economics and agriculture. These issues, critical to national and global economic policy today, are explored with the aim of stimulating the
development of appropriate policies for the future.
With contributions from prominent Australian and international economists including Bob Gregory, Ann Harding, Frank Lichtenberg, Simon Marginson, William Melody, John Quiggin and Peter Saunders,
Engaging the New World is published as a tribute to the work of Peter Sheehan. It reflects his outstanding contribution to public discourse in Australia as a researcher, writer,
leader and adviser to governments.
The volume was published in May 2006 (editors Bhajan Grewal and
Margarita Kumnick). Order a copy from Melbourne University Press.
Also available at Victoria University Bookshop.
More details and table of contents.
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VISIT PROFESSOR
FRANK LICHTENBERG
February 2006 Professor
Frank Lichtenberg is one of the world’s leading economists working
on the quantitative assessment of the impact of new technologies, and
especially medicines, on health outcomes. He is s Courtney C.
Brown Professor of Business at the Columbia University Graduate School
of Business, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic
Research. In February 2006, he visited the Centre for a month, to begin
research on Australian data. During the visit he gave four public
presentations (two in Melbourne and one each in Sydney and Canberra) and
had a number of meetings with political figures and officials in
Canberra.
For copies of his presentations (Biomedical
Innovation, Longevity and Quality of Life and Pharmaceutical
innovation and Cancer Survival: US and International Evidence)
please email
margarita.kumnick@vu.edu.au.
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