Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz – Tax, Justice and the Good Society (Video Available)
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In August 2024, Melbourne Social Equity Institute had the pleasure of partnering with the Taxation Law and Policy Program of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law and the Faculty of Business and Economics to host a public conversation with Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz. The session considered questions on the role of taxation in addressing inequality, realising justice and contributing to the good society.
The event was hosted by Associate Professor Kathryn James, founder and convenor of the Community Tax Project - an alliance between academia and the community and welfare sector to advocate for tax reform in support of social justice.
This event was partly supported with funding by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DE190100346). The views expressed herein are those of the speakers and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.
Speakers
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz is an economist and a professor at Columbia University Business School, as well as co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Professor Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979 and the Sydney Peace Prize in 2018. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Professor Stiglitz’s research focuses on income and wealth distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, public finance, macroeconomics and globalization. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is also the author of numerous best-selling books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society .
Associate Professor Kathryn James is an Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Research fellow. She teaches and researches in taxation law and policy with a focus on how ostensibly technical questions of taxation impact upon distributive justice. Kathryn is the founder and convenor of the Community Tax Project - an alliance between academia and the community and welfare sector to advocate for tax reform in support of social justice.