John Menadue

Measuring the misery of those forced to flee.

Robert Shiller, a 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics says

‘Under today’s haphazard and archaic asylum rules, refugees must take enormous risks to reach safety and the costs and benefits of helping them are distributed capriciously . It does not have to be this way. Economists can help by testing which international rules and institutions are needed to reform an inefficient and often inhumane system.’

For link to article in AFR, see below:

http://www.afr.com/opinion/measuring-the-misery-of-those-forced-to-flee-20160126-gme8ch

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John Menadue

John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and CEO of Qantas.

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