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The 3rd Path to Full Employment Conference - June 14-15, 2001

The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at The University of Newcastle in collaboration with the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council hosted the Second Annual The Path to Full Employment Conference on Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15, 2001. The venue was the University Union, Newcastle.

CofFEE aims to foster high quality research and policy analysis that focuses on the creation and maintenance of full employment and equity in Australia. CofFEE sees that the failure to reduce unemployment is above all a failure of political will. Full employment can be achieved through direct government action and is the most pressing problem facing the world economy.

The following list of keynote speakers attended:

  • Professor Malcolm Sawyer, Economics Group, Leeds Univerisity Business School, UK.
  • Professor Sumner Rosen, Vice-Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition and Emeritus Professor of Social Welfare Policy, Columbia University.
  • Professor Nancy Rose, Economics, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
  • Professor Randy Wray, CFEPS, University of Missouri, USA.
  • Professor Mathew Forstater, CFEPS, University of Missouri, USA.
  • Warren Mosler, AVM Funds Management, Florida, USA.
  • Professor Jan Kregel, UNCTAD.
  • Professor Joan Muysken, Economics, University of Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • Dr. Miriam Altman, Economics, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
  • Professor John Nevile and Associate Professor Peter Kriesler, Economics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
  • Professor Bill Mitchell, CofFEE, Australia.

Two special seminars were staged:

  • The Five Economists versus the Job Guarantee - One of the Five (Dr Michael Keating) debated with Job Guarantee proponents.
  • The Conference also featured a financial markets workshop convened by Warren Mosler which examined issues relating to the dangers of running budget surpluses, financial market instability and unemployment and the likely reaction of financial markets to the introduction of widespread government job creation (the Job Guarantee).

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