Sean Innis

Sean Innis is inaugural Director of the Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub at the Australian National University.

Sean's recent articles

Why am I so busy: the paradox of busyness in the modern world with so many pointless jobs

Why am I so busy: the paradox of busyness in the modern world with so many pointless jobs

Walk through any work place and ask how people are going, most will respond busy.

The future of work is coming but it might not be what you think (The Mandarin 9 Oct, 2020)

Visions of the future of work, utopian and dystopian dot our popular culture. Thinkers behind these visions have often taken a Fukuyama-like plunge foreshadowing, if not the end of work, at least a radical re-working of the role work plays in our lives.

SEAN INNIS and BOB MCMULLAN. Restarting Australian democracy Part One

For many Australians, the relative decisiveness and efficiency of government decision-making over the past few months has been a welcome change.

SEAN INNIS. COVID-19 HAS CHANGED OUR WORLD, IT IS UP TO US TO DESIGN A NEW ONE

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world. We need to approach the future consciously and deliberately, and not let a virus drift us into a world we might regret .

SEAN INNIS. Economic thinking has driven policy making in the past, but will it in the future? Part 2

As discussed yesterday, the changing policy environment affects the role of economic thinking in policy determination. Against that background, Part 2 today discusses the key challenges that economic thinking needs to resolve to retain its policy relevance.

SEAN INNIS. Economic thinking has driven policy making in the past, but will it in the future? Part 1

This article the first in a two-part series discusses the changing dynamics of the Australian policy environment, and how that affects the role of economics in the determination of policies. The second part tomorrow, will discuss the nature of the future challenges to which economic thinking will need to adjust.

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