
Ravi Dutta-Powell
Senior Advisor
The economic shocks of COVID-19 have both highlighted the need for, and presented the opportunity to, rethink markets and market policies. Drawing on the work of our The Behavioural Economy report, Making Markets Better explores how we can revolutionise markets through a behavioural lens and evidence-based strategies, in order to enhance economies in Australia and New Zealand.Â
Markets shape our economies; but at the centre of markets are people, their motivations and their behaviours. By keeping people front of mind in redesigning market policy, we can create markets â and by extension, economies â that are stronger, more inclusive and more sustainable. Â
In this report, we lay out a 6 point plan to reshape market policy with human behaviour at its heart. The core tenets of this plan focus on:Â
Keen to know more? Get in touch with our behavioural markets expert, Ravi Dutta-Powell, or check out our podcast with Minister Victor Dominello of the NSW Department of Customer Service, where he and Dr David Halpern discuss how we can make markets better.Â
Want to be part of the conversation? Join our resident behavioural markets expert, Ravi Dutta-Powell, for a panel discussion with academics and regulators about why markets fail, why keeping human behaviour front and centre is so important to market success, and what actually works to make markets better. Attend in-person in Sydney or livestream the event virtually on 13 July 2021 â register here!
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