FreshEd #402 – What do tax cuts really mean? (Melinda Cooper)

23/10/2025 26 min
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Podcast: FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #402 – What do tax cuts really mean? (Melinda Cooper)Pub date: 2025-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday we explore tax cuts as a form of government expenditure and what that means for social inequality, politics, and government services. My guest is Melinda Cooper.

Melinda Cooper is a professor in the School of Sociology in the Colelge of Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her newest book is Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Zone Books/Princeton University Press, 2024) . I spoke with Melinda in front of a live audience at the Manning Clark House in Canberra for the second part of an event called Taxing Times. I’d like to thank Claire Manning and Luciana Todd for organizing and hosting this event.

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