13 September 2024, 9am – 12.40pm NZST
We are hosting a symposium with Juncture: Dialogues on Inclusive Capitalism on two grand challenges of our time, environmental degradation and income inequality. The event is inspired by the groundbreaking work of Professor Thomas Piketty, French Economist and Wealth Inequality Expert.
Aotearoa New Zealand is engaged in vigorous debates on inequality, taxation, social and economic sustainability, and the environment. The rising cost of living is in the news. Job losses are increasing. Social expenditure is under scrutiny. Traditionally, New Zealand governments have tended towards orthodox economic settings emphasising a focus on inflation and reduced public expenditure. The current government is arguing economic necessity, and is considering actively increased extraction of natural resources, marine and terrestrial, involving significant reform of environmental settings. On the other side, there are complex political discussion in play about major tax reform, and environmental groups are mobilising around concerns that economic drivers could lead to increased climate pollution and biodiversity loss.
These settings and debates reflect growing international concern about ever-greater wealth inequality and its impact on economic, political and environmental outcomes. Governments everywhere are under scrutiny as the orthodox policy settings of the last half century are challenged. Demands for boldness, for effective change, for real transformation in those policy settings are growing.
Our symposium will bring together experts in international business, political economy, Māori studies, and environmental policy to discuss these challenges. See the programme.
Please register on Eventbrite or contact us at ngaarawhetu@auckland.ac.nz.
If you aren’t able to attend, we will be recording the symposium for the next episode of our podcast Sustain! To receive an alert when we publish this podcast please sign up to our fortnightly newsletter.
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