Macquarie Group has surplus capital on the balance sheet and continues to seek businesses which meet its acquisition criteria, as chief executive Nicholas Moore highlighted at the annualgeneral meeting of Australia's only listed investment bank in July. In the wake of the financial crisis, the group made successful acquisitions in funds management but – with its sharp eye on shareholder value and the risk-return equation – finds quality assets are in short supply. Volatile times may have impacted the home-grown financial giant, which now operates in 28 countries, but as Moore explains in an exclusive interview with Knowledge@Australian School of Business, Macquarie's risk management framework has served it well through a range of market cycles.

Despite signs of a dramatic slowdown in Asia, HSBC – one of the

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Treasury chief Martin Parkinson's recent announcement that Australia's

Geoff Harcourt is perhaps one of Australia’s most well known economists.

A Cambridge pupil of John Maynard Keynes, he is best known for his role in Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. This was the theoretical and mathematical debate that raged during the 1960s among economists concerning the role and nature of capital goods (also known as the means of production) and the critique of the dominant vision of aggregate production and distribution (held to be the neoclassical model).

In the half-century since he has developed his own suite of post-Keynesian models, and on the occasion of his 80th birthday a conference in his honour was held looking at “The Future of Capitalism”.

Here, he talks to Julian Lorkin about the academic path that lead him to develop the Cambridge Controversies, his life & career in Economics.

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Tim Harcourt spent years traversing the globe in pursuit of