Emeritus Professor Ross Garnaut
BA (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Public Economics Taxation And Revenue 140215
- Comparative Economic Systems 149901
- Environment And Resource Economics 140205
- Heterodox Economics 149903
- International Relations 160607
- Entrepreneurship 150304
- Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change 050101
- Economic History 140203
- International Economics And International Finance 140210
- Macroeconomics (Incl. Monetary And Fiscal Theory) 140212
- Economic Geography 160401
- Welfare Economics 140219
- Economic Development And Growth 140202
- Industry Economics And Industrial Organisation 140209
- Urban And Regional Economics 140218
- Natural Resource Management 050209
- Labour Economics 140211
- Applied Economics 1402
- Political Science 1606
Research interests
China's economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economies' development and international economic relations; Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.
Career highlights
Australian Ambassador to China (1985-88); Senior Economic Adviser to Prime Minister R.J.L. Hawke (1983-85); First Assistant Secretary (Head of the Department of General Financial and Economic Policy), Papua New Guinea Department of Finance (1975-76); Research Director of the ASEAN-Australia Economic Relations Research Project (1981-83); Foundation Director, Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Management (1998-2000); Head of the Garnaut Climate Change Review 2007-2008.
Publications
- Garnaut, R 2009, 'Climate change and Indonesia: in honour of Panglaykim', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 107-116.
- Garnaut, R, Howes, S, Jotzo, F et al 2009, 'The Implications of Rapid Development for Emissions and Climate-change Mitigation', in Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (ed.), The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 81-106.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Woo, W, eds, 2009, China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Garnaut, R 2009, 'China's place in a world in crisis', in Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo (ed.), China's New Place in a World in Crisis: Economic, Geopolitical and Environmental Dimensions, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-15.
- Garnaut, R & Llewellyn-Smith, D 2009, The Great Crash of 2008, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Carlton, Vic.
- Garnaut, R 2008, The Garnaut climate change review: final report, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
- Garnaut, R, Howes, S, Jotzo, F et al 2008, 'Emissions in the Platinum Age: the implications of rapid development for climate change mitigation', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 377-401.
- Garnaut, R, Jotzo, F & Howes, S 2008, 'China's rapid emissions growth and global climate change policy', in Ligang Song & Wing Thye Woo (ed.), China's dilemma: economic growth, the environment and climate change, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 170-189.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Yao, Y 2008, 'Impact and significance of state-owned enterprise restructuring in China', in B M Fleisher, N C Hope, A A Pena and D T Yang (ed.), Policy Reform and Chinese Markets: Progress and Challenges, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 38-70.
- Garnaut, R 2008, 'Measuring the immeasurable: The costs and benefits of climate change mitigation', Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 1-13.
- Garnaut, R, Jotzo, F & Howes, S 2008, 'A framework for a post-2012 global climate agreement', Policy Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 6-10.
- Garnaut, R 2008, 'Will climate change bring an end to the Platinum Age?', Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y 2007, 'Mature Chinese Growth Leads the Global Platinum Age', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 9-29.
- Garnaut, R & Vines, D 2007, 'Regional Free-Trade Areas: Sorting out the Tangled Spaghetti', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 508-527.
- Garnaut, R 2007, 'Linking Markets for Chinese Growth', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L, eds, 2007, China: Linking Markets for Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R 2007, 'Sir John Grenfell Crawford', in J E King (ed.), A Biographical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Economists, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 74-79.
- Garnaut, R 2006, 'Real Australians in Economics', in Brij Lal, Allison Ley (ed.), The Coombs: A House of Memories, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, pp. 125-148.
- Garnaut, R 2006, 'Review 'Indonesia: The Great Transition' by John Bresnan (editor)', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 389-390.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L & Yao, Y 2006, 'Impact and Significance of State-Owned Enterprise restructuring in China', The China Journal, vol. 55, pp. 35-63.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L, eds, 2006, The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'Truncated globalisation: the fate of the Asia Pacific economies?', in Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (ed.), Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 46-81.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'Rapid industrialization and market for energy and minerals: China in the East Asian context', Frontiers of Economics in China, vol. 3, pp. 373-394.
- Garnaut, R & Patrick, H 2006, 'Peter Drysdale and PAFTAD', in Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (ed.), Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK, pp. 1-4.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y 2006, 'Continued rapid growth and the turning point in China's development', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 12-34.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2006, 'China's resources demand at the turning point', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 276-293.
- Garnaut, R 2006, 'The turning point in China's economic development', in Ross Garnaut & Ligang Song (ed.), The Turning Point in China's Economic Development, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-11.
- Garnaut, R 2006, '"Economizing" on government in economic development', Asian Economic Papers, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 108-116.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'Cracking our complacency', in Peter Dawkins and Michael Stutchbury (ed.), Sustaining Prosperity, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 37-40.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y 2005, 'The risks of investment-led growth', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), The China Boom and its Discontents, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-19.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'The sustainability and some consequences of Chinese economic growth', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 509-518.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'Is Macroeconomic Dead? Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Historical Context', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 524-531.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'Monetary Stability in Economic Development', Pacific Economic Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 103-110.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'Institutional Frameworks to Promote Productive Outcomes', in (ed.), Productive Reform in a Federal System, Australian Government Productivity Commission, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 85-95.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'Review 'Bandung 1955: Non-Alignment and Afro-Asian Solidarity' by Jamie Mackie', Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 117-118.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Tenev, S et al 2005, China's Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects, International Finance Corporation and The World Bank, Washington, USA.
- Garnaut, R, ed., 2005, The China Boom and its Discontents, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'The China boom and its discontents', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), The China Boom and its Discontents, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. xiii-xx.
- Garnaut, R 2005, 'A New Open Regionalism in the Asia Pacific', in Mark Borthwick (ed.), The Future of APEC and Regionalism in Asia Pacific: Perspectives from the Second Track, Jakarta and Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, Jakarta and Singapore, pp. 108-129.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London.
- Garnaut, R 2004, 'Discussion', in Professor William Tow (ed.), Changing Utterly? Australia�s International Policy in an Uncertain Age, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, pp. 121-136.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable?, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra.
- Garnaut, R 2004, 'The sustainability of growth: history and prospects', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China: Is rapid growth sustainable?, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra, pp. 1-22.
- Garnaut, R 2004, 'Australian security and free trade with America', in Jianfu Chen and Gordon Walker (ed.), Balancing Act: Law, Policy and Politics in Globalisation and Global Trade, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 53-74.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, 'Private enterprise in China: development, constraints and policy implications', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 1-15.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2004, 'Correcting constraints to private enterprise development: lessons from a private sector survey', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China's Third Economic Transformation: The rise of the private economy, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 225-235.
- Garnaut, R & Song, L 2003, China: New Engine of World Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra.
- Garnaut, R 2003, 'Australian population choices: An economics perspective', in Steve Vizard, Hugh J Martin and Tim Watts (ed.), Australia's Population Challenge, Penguin Books, Australia, pp. 49-70.
- Garnaut, R 2003, 'China: New Engine of World Growth', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China: New Engine of World Growth, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 1-18.
- Garnaut, R & Findlay, C 2003, 'Overview', in R Garnault (ed.), Pacific Economic Outlook 2003-2004, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 2-11.
- Garnaut, R 2003, 'The future choice', in Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly (ed.), Hard heads, soft hearts: A new reform agenda for Australia, Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 100-101.
- Garnaut, R, ed., 2003, Pacific Economic Outlook 2003-04, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R 2003, 'Lessons from Australia's Experience of Economic Policy and Development', in Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly (ed.), Hard heads, soft hearts: A new reform agenda for Australia, Allen & Unwin, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 25-32.
- Garnaut, R 2003, Migration to Australia and Comparisons with the United States - Who Benefits?, Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Catching up with America', in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (ed.), China 2002: WTO entry and world recession, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp. 1-17.
- Garnaut, R, ed., 2002, Resource Management in Asia Pacific Developing Countries, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Garnaut, R & FitzGerald, V 2002, Review of Commonwealth-State Funding - Final Report, Asia Pacific Press, Melbourne.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Australia as a branch office economy', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 447-461.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Australia: A case study of unilateral trade liberalization', in Jagdish Bhagwati (ed.), Going Alone: The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, pp. 139-166.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'An Australia-United States free trade agreement', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 123-141.
- Garnaut, R 2002, Pacific Economic Outlook 2002-03, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Equity and Australian development: Lessons from the First Century', The Australian Economic Review, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 227-243.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Immigration : Who wins and who loses', Migration: Benefiting Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, pp. 131-164.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Overview', in Garnaut (ed.), Pacific Economic Outlook 2002-03, Asia Pacific Press, ANU, Canberra, pp. 2-11.
- Garnaut, R & FitzGerald, V 2002, 'Issues in Commonwealth-State Funding', The Australian Economic Review, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 290-300.
- Garnaut, R 2002, 'Reflections on the new institutional economics', in Ross Garnaut (ed.), Resource Management in Asia Pacific Developing Countries, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-9.
- Garnaut, R, ed., 2002, China 2002: WTO entry and world recession, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y, eds, 2001, Growth without Miracles, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
- Garnaut, R, Song, L, Yao, Y et al 2001, Private Enterprise in China, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra and Beijing.
- Garnaut, R 2001, Social Democracy in Australia's Asian Future, Asia Pacific Press, Canberra and Singapore.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y 2001, 'China's Integration into the World Economy', in Ross Garnaut and Yiping Haung (ed.), Growth Without Miracles, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 436-458.
- Garnaut, R 2001, 'Economic Growth and Stability in China', in Ross Garnaut and Yiping Haung (ed.), Growth Without Miracles, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 88-102.
- Garnaut, R 2001, 'Twenty Years of Economic Reform and Structural Change in the Chinese Economy', in Ross Garnaut and Yiping Haung (ed.), Growth Without Miracles, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 1-18.
- Garnaut, R 2000, 'East Asia after the financial crisis', in Drysdale, P.D. (ed.), Reform and Recovery in East Asia: The Role of the State and Economic Enterprise, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 13-27.
- Garnaut, R, Drysdale, P & Song, L 2000, 'Introduction: China's interests in APEC', in Drysdale, P., Zhang, Y., Song, L. (ed.), APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. xv-xxv.
- Garnaut, R 2000, 'Introduction [to APEC ideas and reality: history and prospects]', in Ippei Yamazawa (ed.), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): Challenges and tasks for the twenty-first century, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1-18.
- Garnaut, R & Huang, Y 2000, 'China and the future of the international trading system', in Drysdale, P.; Song, L. (ed.), China's Entry to the WTO: Strategic issues and quantitative assessments, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, pp. 7-29.
