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The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy - Ian Macfarlane

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Silent Hero of the Australian Economy

In 2006 you delivered the Boil lecture for that year. The topic or the title you picked was the search for stability. It's also the basis of a book under the same title. In the book you talk about a poignant fact of policymaking which is that because people never have, they never see a true counterfactual. We can never fairly attribute credit or blame to policymakers for their decisions. As I told you the last time we caught up, I consider you the silent hero of the Australian economy. Do you think there's truth to what I'm saying? You were between the ages of five and 15. So you probably weren't reading the financial press or that to know that

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