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Student Economics Conference
On May 22nd, the Faculty of the Professions hosted the Student Economics Conference for year 12 high-school students from selected secondary schools across the state. Held in conjunction with the Asian Education Foundation and the Economics Teacher’s Society, the conference encouraged students to continue with their Economics studies, and gave them a broad understanding of […]
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Podcast – Professor Geoff Harcourt, The Crisis in Mainstream Economics
Geoff Harcourt is a man who makes an impression — whether as a distinguished academic, a gregarious storyteller, or an influential teacher. Listen to a recording of Professor Geoff Harcourt’s talk on ‘The Crisis in Mainstream Economics’, presented (aptly) in the ‘GC Harcourt Room’, at the School of Economics on Monday 23 April, 2012.
2011 Undergraduate Prize Award Ceremony
Alexandra Veroude with The Hon. Jack Snelling MP and Asc Professor Mandar Oak, Head of School Not only did top student Alexandra Veroude take out the three star prizes of Best Honours Thesis, Best Overall Honours Achievement and the LexisNexis Prize for Honours Economics, but her prizes were presented to her by the Hon. Jack […]
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Multiple Food Security Research Grant Success in Economics
A $1m global research program in food security is being developed at the University of Adelaide. Participants in this network from around the world will meet at the National Forum on Food Security to be held at the National Wine Centre on February 13th, 2012 http://economics.adelaide.edu.au/events/food-security University participants come from a number of its Faculties, […]
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Global Food Systems and Food Security Workshop Summary
On November 30th, 2011, twenty two senior staff comprised of researchers from the Faculty of Professions, the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, the Faculty of Sciences as well as policy and decision makers from SARDI and PIRSA and the Waite Research Institute, attended the “Global Food Systems and Food Security” workshop at the Waite […]
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Welcome to the Global Food Systems Blog
Global Food Systems 2050 is a new research coalition which sits within the Waite Research Institute and the School of Economics to provide a systems perspective on current food policy issues. It will be the Asia-Pacific’s leading research consortium in the area of Food Economics, Business and Policy partnering with existing research strengths across faculties […]
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The Challenge
Firms involved in agricultural and food production, processing and distribution face unique challenges and opportunities resulting from globalization. Their capacity to respond will have great significance for their communities. The development of new relationships in the research community will assist with their ability to adjust and to capture more of the opportunities available. The current […]
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The Opportunity at the University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide is uniquely placed in Australia to organise these research networks and to respond to the drivers of change in world food policy. It has deep skills in the core area of supply chain analysis as well as consumer behaviour. It has depth in the economics and business analysis of food markets […]
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A Rare Insight into the Reserve Bank of Australia
On Friday 28 October, the School was fortunate to welcome Lynne Cockerell from the research department at Reserve Bank of Australia, who lectured on whether we should be concerned about current account deficits. The lecture was targeted at second and third year undergraduate students, and offered a rare opportunity to gain first-hand exposure to how […]
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Economic History Book Published by HUP
Professor Richard Pomfret’s most recent book has recently been published by Harvard University Press: The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective. The book follows the story of the development of free-wheeling capitalism in the 20th Century, and the threats it faced from the competing systems of planned economic development unfolding within the […]