Melinda Cooper in conversation with Will Brehm.

This talk broadly explores wealth and taxation, focusing on the idea of tax expenditures in the Australian context. It dives into the intellectual history of supply-side economics and contemporary formations of when tax cuts aren’t really tax cuts. It highlights the regressive outcomes of some tax policies, especially those related to housing.

Melinda Cooper is a social and political theorist whose work focuses on the recent history of capitalism and its intersections with the politics of class, gender and race.
Her most recent work Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Zone Books/Princeton University Press, 2024) explores, amongst other things, the history of tax preferences that led to the rise of Donald Trump as real estate entrepreneur.
Dr. Will Brehm's research interrogates how comparative and international education intersects with international relations and the political economy of development.

There will be a Q&A session following the presentation, then light refreshments.
MCH members $15; Concession (Gov’t support and full-time students) $15; Non-members $20

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