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Adapt, or learn to live in a dirty economy?

Adapt, or learn to live in a dirty economy?

Will the clean economy be possible, or is it a myth we like to tell ourselves?

Amrik Sohal

Anke Leroux

Diane Kraal

Department of Economics

Department of Management

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Moving towards a circular economy

Moving towards a circular economy

How we can move from a linear economy to a circular one. With sustainability expert Helen Millicer.

Amrik Sohal

Department of Management

Measuring the clean economy

Measuring the clean economy

We know we need to act on climate change. But how do we measure improvements and the setbacks?

Ummul Ruthbah

Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves

Monash Centre for Financial Studies

Department of Accounting

The marathon ride: driving the Australian economy through a pandemic (ep2)

The marathon ride: driving the Australian economy through a pandemic (ep2)

The marathon ride. Record budget, record spending, record debt. Is this the right way to drive the Australian economy through a pandemic? With Professor Heather Anderson, Professor Giovanni Caggiano and Associate Professor Gaurav Datt.

Heather Anderson

Giovanni Caggiano

Gaurav Datt

Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability

The fourth industrial revolution and what happens next: Professor Simon Wilkie

The fourth industrial revolution and what happens next: Professor Simon Wilkie

The future does not belong to the robots. With Head of Monash Business School, Professor Simon Wilkie.

Simon Wilkie

Senior Leadership team

It’s just a gig: how the gig economy is stealing workers’ rights

It’s just a gig: how the gig economy is stealing workers’ rights

Freedom and flexibility versus no holiday or sick pay – and often no superannuation: that's the choice facing 'gig' economy workers. Is it time for them to be guaranteed certain basic rights?  

Carolyn Sutherland

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Motivating volunteers – praise or satisfaction?

Motivating volunteers – praise or satisfaction?

Using public recognition is a useful way to motivate volunteers and attract people who are not necessarily motivated by altruism.

Asadul Islam

Human behaviour, observed one trillion times

Human behaviour, observed one trillion times

It's a mistake to think the internet is simply data; it is a living, breathing manifestation of all our most human actions and motivations  – if we know how to look. With Associate Professor Paul Raschky.

Paul Raschky

Department of Economics

New measures for global poverty

New measures for global poverty

How do we erase poverty? A new book takes a look at recent developments in the analysis of household behaviour on prices and how we measure poverty, taking a fresh look at an age-old problem.

Ranjan Ray

Department of Economics

Crash and burn: How fast cars and hedge funds go together

Crash and burn: How fast cars and hedge funds go together

Can your choice of car influence your appetite for investment risk? If you are a hedge fund manager, it seems it can.

Stephen Brown

Department of Business Law and Taxation

That empty feeling – why federal budgets have lost their true meaning

That empty feeling – why federal budgets have lost their true meaning

Once, budgets were central to broad economic reform; now they have become victims of polls, politics and short-term thinking. But there is a way back.

Mark Crosby

Is it better to buy or to rent?

Is it better to buy or to rent?

Are people better off buying their own home rather than renting? Research from Monash Business School suggests buying may not always be the answer.

Luc Borrowman

Department of Economics