The 2005 Australian Conference of Economists will be held at the University of Melbourne from Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th September 2005. Confirmed speakers include: Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Alison Booth (ANU), Roger Craine (Berkeley), David Fielding (Otago), James Galbraith (Texas), Simon...

Franco Modigliani's death in September 2003 deprived the economics profession of one of its most accomplished practitioners-an outstanding theorist who made significant contributions to the design of policies for improving the economic wellbeing. Modigliani, a refugee from Mussolini's fascist...