A Christian Vision for the Marketplace

Dr Ian Harper is one of Australia’s best known economists. He has worked closely with governments, banks, and corporations at the highest level. He is sought after as a commentator and public speaker on economics and financial issues and has been described as “one of those relatively rare academics who can communicate extremely well with both the business community and the academic community”.

In 2008, following a 25-year academic career – including 16 years in various roles at Melbourne Business School – Ian left academic life to become a director of Access Economics. In recognition of his service to the University of Melbourne, Ian was elected Emeritus Professor on his departure. More recently, he joined Deloitte Access Economics as a Partner when Deloitte acquired Access Economics in March 2011.

From December 2005 to July 2009, Ian served as inaugural Chairman of the Australian Fair Pay Commission, an independent statutory body whose role was to set and adjust minimum wages in Australia. In January 2011, he was appointed by the Baillieu Government of Victoria as one of three panelists to the Independent Review of State Finances.

He’s currently in Perth to speak about a Christian Vision for the Marketplace at Vose College. He joined me in the studio yesterday morning during my radio program on 98five Sonshine FM.

We live in an age when we’re being told more and more that we can believe what we want but that we should leave our beliefs at home when we head off to work. How then do we begin to create a Christian Vision for the Marketplace? I asked Ian the question and enjoyed hearing his perspective on faith in the workplace.

You can listen to our conversation by clicking the play button on the audio player at the bottom of this post.



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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He previously worked in radio for about 25 years but these days he spends his time at Compassion Australia, working towards releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.

The views he expresses here are his own.

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