Past Events
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'Surviving Canberra' an end of year celebration
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 12, 2017, 6:00 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
Please join us to celebrate a fantastic inaugural year for the Women in Economics Network in Canberra.
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The 2017 AGM and an address by an Emeritus Professor Sue Richardson
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 12, 2017, 5:30 pm
The 2017 AGM of the Economic Society of Australia (SA Branch) will be held on Tuesday 12th December at 5:30pm,
The AGM will be followed by an Address by Sue Richardson, an Emeritus Professor at the National Institute of Labour Studies of Flinders University – commencing at 6.00pm. The topic of her address is:
‘Setting the Australian Minimum Wage’.
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HASS Centres of Excellence Workshop
Event Type: Workshops/Conferences
Date: Monday Dec 11, 2017, 10:00 am
The Australian Academy of Humanities, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and Australian Research Council are convening this one-day workshop for potential HASS applicants for the forthcoming ARC Centres of Excellence rounds.
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Economics Society of Australia (ACT) Christmas Drinks
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Dec 7, 2017, 6:00 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
The Economic Society of Australia (ESA) ACT invites you to its Christmas Drinks night, where we will reflect on the year that was and consider the year to come.
The venue is the beautiful and relaxing facility at Old Parliament House.
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Mapping peace, reslience and gender equality
Date: Thursday Dec 7, 2017, 6:00 pm
Please join us for a conversation with the Global Peace Index, the Women’s Resilience Index and introducing the new Women, Peace & Security Index
WEN End of Year Drinks
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Dec 6, 2017, 6:00 pm
Join us to catch up and celebrate the WEN’s first year, and hear about our bigger and better events planned for 2018 including skill development sessions
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Partner Event: ADB Chief Economist, Yasuyuki Sawada
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Wednesday Dec 6, 2017, 5:30 pm
Monash Business School's Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability, together with its South-Asia Research Network, Centre for Global Business, are delighted to invite members of the Economic Society to a public lecture to be given by Professor Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist and Director in General, Asian Development Bank.
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Women in Economics Network: Gender gaps among academic economists
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Dec 5, 2017, 12:00 pm
WEN (Victoria) is very pleased to welcome Professor Karen Mumford, who is visiting Australia from the University of York. In this seminar, Karen will look at what’s changed for women economists in academia and discuss the challenges they still encounter. She will share her recent analysis of the gender pay gap amongst academic economists in the UK and how it has (not) changed this century.
We thank the Markets, Culture and Behaviours Group within the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University, for their support of this WEN event.
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Partner Event: Public Lecture with Joel Mokyr
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Monday Dec 4, 2017, 6:00 pm
Swinburne's Centre for Transformative Innovation is hosting a public lecture by Professor Joel Mokyr from Northwestern University who will discuss how rapidly improving research tools impact on future economic well-being and how the threats to growth are coming from the institutional-political direction, not traditional economic forces.
Hipsters, hamburgers and booze – how market forces impact the Tasmanian Agri-Food ScoreCard
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 30, 2017, 5:15 pm
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Professional Development Seminar: Tracking the environmental footprint of firms in industrialising countries
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 30, 2017, 12:30 pm
The next professional development seminar will be presented by Dr Leslie from the University of Melbourne who will discuss : Tracking the environmental footprint of firms in industrialising countries.
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The European Migration Challenge
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Nov 28, 2017, 5:30 pm
The Economic Society of Australia (South Australia Branch) and the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, jointly organising a lecture on "The European Migration Challenge" presented by Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann.
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Lunchtime Seminar: Trends in Economics Enrolments at Australian Universities
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 23, 2017, 12:30 pm
In a speech given on 29 July 2017, Dr Jacqui Dwyer (Head of the Reserve Bank’s Information Department) showed that there has been a sharp drop in the number of students studying economics in Year 12 since the early 1990s, alongside a substantial decline in diversity.
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Annual General Meeting: Save the Date
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 22, 2017, 5:30 pm
The Annual General Meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia will be held at 5.30 pm on Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at the Kelvin Club, 14-30 Melbourne Place, Melbourne. Afterwards, Professor John Freebairn will give a talk on Reform Options for State Property Taxes.
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ABE Annual Dinner and Briefing by Dr Philip Lowe
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Tuesday Nov 21, 2017, 6:45 pm
Australian Business Economists (ABE) are pleased to present its annual dinner including a briefing and discussion with Dr Philip Lowe, Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia - Recent Developments in the Australian and Global Economy.
Ethics and Incentives
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Friday Nov 17, 2017, 12:30 pm
This Roundtable will focus on Ethics and Incentives and will serve as a no-frills debate about how we choose, promote, design, and advise in social science and business.
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AGM and Annual Dinner with Dr Gigi Foster
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 16, 2017, 6:15 pm
From: Australian Capital Territory
Our speaker for this year is Dr Gigi Foster, Associate Professor University of NSW, who will be speaking on the topic: Ethics in Economics
Come along to the AGM and have a say in the direction of the ESA(ACT) and vote for the new committee and share your ideas.
To access the 2017 AGM documents at our web site 'LOGIN' to the member portal and click on 'My Documents'. Then click on the folder titled 2017 AGM. If you are experiencing any difficulty in accessing the 2017 AGM folder please contact the Secretariat at admin@esaact.org.au or ring 0408 492 405.
If you plan on only attending the AGM and not the Annual Dinner please RSVP the Secretariat at admin@esaact.org.au.
A reminder that postal/email votes and proxies are due to the secretariat by 5pm Monday 14 November and that only financial members of the Economics Society (ACT) are eligible to vote at the AGM.
Click here to renew your membership if you not currently a financial member.
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Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Thursday Nov 16, 2017, 9:00 am
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Stan Kelly Lecture 2017: Where is the Growth Going to Come From
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 15, 2017, 6:00 pm
After the mining investment boom and then the apartment construction boom, where is Australia’s economic growth going to come from in future? And does it matter where it comes from? The 2017 Stan Kelly Lecture will be given by Luci Ellis, Assistant Governor (Economic) of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
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Partner Event: The Challenges Facing IP Systems: Researching for the Future
Event Type: Partner Event
Date: Wednesday Nov 15, 2017, 5:45 pm
Swinburne's Centre for Transformative Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology is holding its inaugural ‘Tom Spurling Oration’ at 6.00pm on the 15th November 2017.
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The National Electricity Market: Current challenges and its future
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Tuesday Nov 14, 2017, 12:00 pm
Lunchtime discussion on the future of the NEM, chaired by Synergies Principal Euan Morton and featuring presentations from University of Queensland Economics Professor Flavio Menezes and AGL Chief Economist Tim Nelson.
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Sundowner
Event Type: Wide/Public Interest
Date: Monday Nov 13, 2017, 5:15 pm
Members and guests of the ESA are invited to a Sundowner featuring a presentation by Ms Jessica Shaw MLA on her experience in becoming a Member of Parliament and her role as Chairperson of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee.
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Political fragmentation: the rise and rise of the minor party vote
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Monday Nov 6, 2017, 5:30 pm
The minor party vote in Australia is on the rise. And it is rising faster in the regions than the cities. Politicians in the major parties are nervous and looking to win back voters, but lack of understanding of the causes of this shift risks bad policy.
In this presentation, Danielle Wood will explore the economic, social and institutional explanations for the changes in voting patterns.
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EES Lunch with Ross Gittins AM
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Nov 2, 2017, 12:15 pm
Ross Gittins AM, Economics Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald will be our special guest for lunch. Subscribe to the Emerging Economist Series to attend this event.
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Lunchtime Seminar: Taking the lab to the field
Event Type: ESA Event
Date: Thursday Oct 26, 2017, 12:30 pm
Taking the lab to the field: using lab-in-the-field experiments to inform policy: Lab experiments conducted in a naturalistic environment, termed “lab-in-the-field” experiments, are becoming an increasingly popular methodology. This talk discusses the use of the methodology to inform policy decisions.
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