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Richard Denniss is an Australian economist, author and public policycommentator, who is the Executive Director of The Australia Institute.[1] and a former Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra.[2]
Denniss was described by Mark Kenny in the Sydney Morning Herald as "a constant thorn in the side of politicians on both sides due to his habit of skewering dodgy economic justifications for policy".[3] In October 2018, The Australian Financial Review listed Denniss and Ben Oquist of The Australia Institute as equal tenth-place on their "Covert Power" list of the most powerful people in Australia.[4]
Prior to his appointment at The Australia Institute, Denniss was Senior Strategic Advisor to Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown and was also Chief of Staff to Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, former Leader of the Australian Democrats.[1] Denniss also worked as a researcher at the H.V. Evatt Memorial Foundation (the 'Evatt Foundation'), a public policy organisation with strong links to the Australian Labor Party. His academic work has resulted in publications in various peer-reviewed journals, and he has lectured in Economics at the University of Newcastle.[5]
During the 2000s Denniss' research focused on climate change policy[6] and tax policy.[7] He also worked on a number of projects aimed at improving the measurement of government and economic performance including the 'Genuine Progress Indicator' (GPI),[8] the 'Wellbeing Manifesto',[9] and the state of Australian Government.
666 ABC Canberra produced and broadcast "An occasional series with 'The Moral Economist'" podcast starring Richard Denniss, in 2013. The series discussed economic issues from the dollar cost of a human life to preventative health care to who deserves welfare.[10]
2015年、デニスはオーストラリア国立大学で第16回マニング・クラーク講演を行いました。講演ではクラークの著作を基に、オーストラリアの文化、経済、政治史における「拡大者」と「処罰者」を特定しました。[ 11 ]
オーストラリア労働党議員アンドリュー・リーは、「リチャードは、(自由市場経済学者で元オーストラリア準備銀行理事の)ウォーリック・マッキビンの鏡像のような存在だと思う」と述べている。[ 12 ]
デニスはベストセラー書籍『Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough』[ 13 ]とサラ・マディソンとの共著『An Introduction to Australian Public Policy 』の著者である。またブレントン・プロッサーとは『Minority policy: rethinking government when parliament matters』を共著し、ウェストミンスター制度における少数派政権の運営と公共政策への影響を検証している。2016年には著書『Econobabble』がBlack IncとRedbackから出版された。[ 14 ]最近では『Affluenza : When too Much is Never Enough 』の続編『Curing Affluenza』を出版し、2018年6月の季刊エッセイ『 Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next』の著者でもある。
デニスはThe Monthly [ 15 ]とQuarterly Essayに定期的に寄稿しているほか、The Canberra Times [ 16 ]とThe Australian Financial Review [ 17 ]にもコラムを寄稿している。