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One year after the Garnaut Climate Change Review
While the ETS as proposed by the government has many weaknesses, it is likely that changes to facilitate support in the Australian Senate would exacerbate rather than ameliorate these weaknesses.
By Ross Garnaut, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics

Search for a theory for unemployment
The advantage of search theory is that it explicitly takes into account the frictions and the uncertainty that agents in the labour market face, and it allows us to understand unemployment as an equilibrium phenomenon.
By Ian King, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Macroeconomics

Organising for co-creation: The service employee-customer interface as a source of competitive advantage
For effective co-creation to occur, the organisation needs to be willing to give up an element control
By Simon Bell, Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management and Marketing

Are we taking Indonesia seriously?
In 2009 most Australians have not made up their mind whether they want to engage with Indonesia or not. Our hearts, minds and wallets are still elsewhere.
By Howard Dick, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne and Conjoint Professor in Faculty of Business & Law at the University of Newcastle (NSW)

An evidence-based approach to developing your career
Today’s working life is quite different from that of our parents and grandparents. We live in more demanding and less predictable times.
By Leisa D Sargent, Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing

What does economics say about intellectual property?
The issue for the policy maker is: can we craft patent law so it provides the incentive needed for commercialisation while preserving the best features of the system of open science?
By Russell Thomson, Research Fellow and Elizabeth Webster, Associate Professor at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Using good education in times of change
Those features of the world that reflect and shape human civilisation are changing on a scale and at a pace that has no precedent.
By Ross Garnaut, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics

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