I was one of ten senior economists who in August 2009 sent a Letter to the Queen about the need for reforms to economics in the light of the failure of mainstream economics to predict the Global Financial Crisis.
Submissions to Inquiries
Submission to GROCERY Choice Senate Inquiry 2009. This submission is quoted extensively in the Senate Inquiry Report
Submission to Productivity Commission Review of Australia’s Consumer Policy Framework (2007)
Consumer Policy Briefing Paper
Newspaper articles
Article on unit pricing, The Courier Mail (Brisbane) 17 December 2009
Article on high pay, Otago Daily Times (Dunedin, NZ) 25 July 2000
Photo from UQ Business School Magazine, 2001
My decision in 2001 to resign my chair at Lincoln University in New Zealand, after a decade in that position, and move to senior lectureship at the University of Queensland in Australia was an unusual move, reflecting changes in Trans-Tasman relativities in university resourcing and pay scales as well as resroucing-related pressures to maintain student numbers by ‘dumbing down’ what was taught. It attracted media interest in New Zealand (in The Press (Christchurch) and The New Zealand Herald) and Australia (in The Australian).
Photo from Lincoln University Outlook Magazine, 1993
Peter E. Earl -- Eclectic Real-World Economics 