This compendium is a response to an essay penned by Federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, for 'The Monthly' in February 2023. The team at the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation was inspired by the 'Capitalism after the Crises' topic, and decided to approach a diverse group of potential collaborators to come together around the theme.

The main proposition behind the 'degrowth' movement is that economic growth is causing irreversible and irreparable harm to the planet, to the detriment of future generations and potentially risking human civilisation. This paper reviews the arguments for degrowth and then dissects them, addressing several myths which appear to drive this call.

The economic turmoil of recent years has seen a renewed focus on Britain’s failure to grow. This essay, by CPS Director Robert Colvile, sets out how this is a much longer-term problem than we think – that the growth ceiling of the British economy has been getting lower and lower for decades, driven in part...

This report finds that the Australian finance sector’s concentration on profits at all costs compromises the ethical integrity of workers in the industry. The report argues that while the Banking Royal Commission uncovered widespread misconduct in Australia’s banking and financial services sector, it failed to fully come to terms with the cause of that misconduct.

In this report, the authors show how billionaire wealth has grown astoundingly over the last few decades — and, for some “pandemic profiteers,” even more dramatically since the COVID-19 crisis.