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Order without Design: How markets shape cities

Cities are the vital engines of the Australian economy, and how we build them matters. From our inner-cities to our urban fringes, what ultimately gets built is at the intersection of government policy and private markets.

Join Alain Bertaud, former Principal Planner at the World Bank and author of Order without Design: how markets shape cities, and Salim Furth, from the Mercatus Center, for an insightful discussion exploring how this intersection between policy and markets can be made to work on behalf of al Australians.

By combining urban planning and urban economics, both practitioners and advocates will be better placed to achieve their goals. Only by measuring the outcomes of our policies can we begin to understand what truly works.

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The timing of this event is 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEDT (SYD/CBR/MEL).

About the Speakers

Alain Bertaud is an esteemed urban planner, formerly at the World Bank, and currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a senior research scholar at New York University Marron Institute of Urban Managemeent.

Alain's lifetime of work across the globe has given him an incisive and unparalleled view on the inner workings of cities, and how outcomes across different geographies are shaped by the same recurring forces.

Salim Furth is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center. 

With a PhD in Economics, his work provides critical insights into how regulation shapes housing markets and urban growth.

About the Chair

Alex Robson commenced a 5-year term as a full time Commissioner and Deputy Chair of the Productivity Commission in March 2022.

Professor Robson has a broad range of experience in academia and the public and private sectors, most recently as Associate Partner at EY (Ernst and Young).

Prior to that, Professor Robson served as Australia’s Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

He also served as Senior Economic Adviser and Chief Economist to the former Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull, and has held a number of other positions, including Managing Director at FTI Consulting; Director at Deloitte Access Economics; Director of the Economic Policy Analysis Program at Griffith University; Lecturer in Economics at the Australian National University; and as a graduate economist at the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.

Professor Robson’s teaching and research has been in the fields of advanced microeconomics, game theory, public economics and public choice, law and economics, and macroeconomics.

Professor Robson holds a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) from James Cook University and a Master of Arts and PhD in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, USA. His research has been published in several international journals, including Economic Theory, Public Choice, the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, and Economic Modelling. His law and economics book, Law and Markets, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.

In addition to his role of Deputy Chair, Professor Robson is also working on GST distribution reforms.

Professor Robson leads the Productivity stream of work and co-leads the Industry and Trade stream of work at the PC.

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