Invitation to participate
The Economic Society of Australia proudly invites you to participate in the 37th Australian Conference for Economists (ACE08) to be held on the Gold Coast at the Holiday Inn from the 30 September to 4 October 2008.The Organising Committee calls for submissions across the full range of economics. Submissions may be made as a contributed paper or a poster. Acceptance of contributed papers will be based on referee reports of complete papers. Online submission is now open, with the final deadline for submission on Monday 30 June 2008. For further enquiries regarding presentations contact the Organising Committee by emailing James Dick.
We are currently confirming a number of keynote speakers relating to our themes of Infrastructure, Central Banking and Trade. These include the former RBA Governor Ian MacFarlane (thanks to Goldman Sachs), the Editor of the ‘Energy Journal’ Adonis Yatchew (thanks to QUT) and the Head of the Risk and Sustainable Management Group, John Quiggan (thanks to UQ). We expect to attract a number of other world-class speakers.
Change in our time
All around us we are seeing the growing consequences of the changing face of economics. Vanishing access to clean drinking water and increasingly volatile energy prices are the tip of the iceberg. Resources are becoming scarcer and our demands on them are increasing.
Globalisation has changed the world forever. Will central banking need to change with it, or have we found the right levers to pull?
Economics used to see great battles of economic theory. Now the battle that matters is over the most basic of economic questions – the allocation (and trading) of scarce resources.