1st Edition

Economic Innovations Creating New Instruments to Improve Economic Life

By Beth Webster, Bill Scales Copyright 2023
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians. Economic system innovations have had a profound impact on our lives, from the invention of banking in the middle ages to the organisations established by the United Nations post-WWII. However, their intangible... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Establishing national foundations  

3. Post-WWII grand ideas  

4. The baby-boomer reforms  

5. The new Millennium  

6. Conclusion

Biography

Beth Webster is Director of the Centre for Transformative Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology and Pro Vice Chancellor. She has a long abiding interest in economic research and the political economy of policy and has worked for several government departments and three public research institutes at Monash, Melbourne and Swinburne Universities.

Bill Scales has held governance, advisory and executive positions in business, industry, government and the not-for-profit sectors. These include manufacturing, telecommunications, the government sector, aged care, economic infrastructure and education sectors. He has been Chair or Panel Member on 13 major national and Australian state government inquiries and reviews across the economy.