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Professor Richard Pomfret’s most recent book has recently been published by Harvard University Press: The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective. The book follows the story of the development of free-wheeling capitalism in the 2...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Ralph Bayer, who has been successful in the current round of ARC Discovery grants. His proposal is entitled "Effective and efficient corporate tax enforcement" and he will be working with partner investigators, Pr...

In 2011 the School of Economics ran a competition open to High School students asking them to creatively display ‘what is Economics’? We are pleased to announce we have a winner- Nicole Wedding, from Marryatville High School. Nicole has won $1000 cash ...

Professor Mark Weder and Dr Jacob Wong – Understanding the Effects of News Shocks on Macroeconomic Fluctuations. $186K over 3 years. The aim of this project is to construct and analyze models of economic fluctuations in which arrival of news concerning...

Prof. Kym Anderson led from 2006 to 2009 a ground-breaking World Bank study to measure distortions to agricultural incentives in 75 countries over the past 50 years. One great public benefit of this project is that it provides, for the first time, comp...

The competition is for Australian university students and each year challenges them to examine important and topical economic issues affecting Australia. The essay topic for this year is The Economics of Natural Disasters. There have been a number of m...

By Glyn Wittwer and Kym Anderson The University of Adelaide Press in conjunction with Professor Kym Anderson has organised to reprint this publication. A PDF is available for download at the University Press website www.adelaide.edu.au/press, three oth...

Congratulations to Dr Ernesto Valenzuela who has received the award of “GTAP Research Fellow 2009-2012″, a recognition given to only 5 people every year. Dr Valenzuela was awarded this distinction at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Global Economic Ana...

Alexandra Veroude with The Hon. Jack Snelling MP and Asc Professor Mandar Oak, Head of School Not only did top student Alexandra Veroude take out the three star prizes of Best Honours Thesis, Best Overall Honours Achievement and the LexisNexis Prize fo...

Listen to Prof Phil Pardey from the University of Minnesota speak on research compiled with Prof Julian Alston, UC-Davis on how agricultural investors get their biggest return from their R & D investment.

Watch World Food Prize Laureate Prof Per Pinstrup-Andersen speak on Food Security Issues to 2050: What are the biggest issues needing action and whose job is it? Presented on February 13, 2012 at the University of Adelaide’s Forum on Food Security

Listen to a recording of Dr Nick Austin, CEO of ACIAR, speaking about new approaches in international agricultural research

Listen to a recording of Christopher Findlay, Executive Dean of Professions, University of Adelaide speaking about reframing the food, nutrition, health, and agriculture R and D agenda.

Listen to Dr Will Martin, World Bank, speaking about national and global food security: what roles for trade and trade policies? Slides National and global food security, Dr Will Martin View more presentations from food2050

                            Prof Kym Anderson’s wrap up comments A stellar line up of speakers and a capacity audience of over 200 delegates and speakers from 16 different countries and 5 Australian states ‘reframed’ the global agriculture and food res...

Click here to download the Podcast Prof Per Pinstrup-Anderson, World Food Prize Laureate, Cornell University and University of Copenhagen Food Security Issues to 2050: What are the biggest issues needing action and whose job is it? 10 Action Issues

On Friday 28 October, the School was fortunate to welcome Lynne Cockerell from the research department at Reserve Bank of Australia, who lectured on whether we should be concerned about current account deficits. The lecture was targeted at second and t...

Origin Energy Australia recently undertook research which determined that the University of Adelaide produces some of their most academically and professionally successful and loyal employees. Because of this the University of Adelaide is one of only a...