56 min

Explaining the Rise of Australian Inequality, with Andrew Leigh Ideas for your Ears: Per Capita's Podcast

    • Política

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Andrew Leigh, Explaining the Rise of Australian Inequality, 5 December 2016, Sydney. Dr Leigh outlined the big drivers of inequality in Australia: low union membership, technology, globalisation, taxes and transfers, and market concentration. The strongest friends of egalitarianism include a fair transfer system and good unions, while some of the biggest challenges are robots and monopolies.

Per Capita Reform Agenda Series public forum with Andrew Leigh, Explaining the Rise of Australian Inequality, 5 December 2016, Sydney. Dr Leigh outlined the big drivers of inequality in Australia: low union membership, technology, globalisation, taxes and transfers, and market concentration. The strongest friends of egalitarianism include a fair transfer system and good unions, while some of the biggest challenges are robots and monopolies.

56 min