Ben Spies-Butcher is CEO of the Centre for Future Work and Honorary Associate Professor of Economy and Society in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University He was a founding Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Housing and Urban Research Centre and founding co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab. Ben's most recent book is Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation, with Anthem Press. His current research collaborations include The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia (DP250101443), and Aboriginal led solutions: strategies for reinvestment (Australian Public Policy Institute).

Experience

  • 2019–present
    Associate professor, Macquarie University

Education

  •  
    University of Sydney, PhD in Economics

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