John Quiggin is a Professor  Economics at the University of Queensland. He is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian and international economic policy in traditional and social media. His most recent book, Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work and Why they can Fail so Badly , was released in April 2019 by Princeton University Press. 

Recent Publications

Quiggin, J., Klein, E. & Henderson, T. (2020) Forget JobSeeker. In our post-COVID economy, Australia needs a ‘liveable income guarantee’ instead. https://theconversation.com/forget-jobseeker-in-our-post-covid-economy-australia-needs-a-liveable-income-guarantee-instead-141535, The Conversation, 2 July.

Quiggin, J. (2017) Why we should put ‘basic’ before ‘universal’ in the pursuit of income equality. The Guardian Feb 7, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/07/why-we-should-put-basic-before-universal-in-the-pursuit-of-income-equality.