Ross Garnaut, with Anthony Clunies Ross, is the author of the 1975 article in The Economic Journal that opened global discussion of resource rent taxes, and of the authoritative 1983 book The Taxation of Mineral Rent, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

The Garnaut – Clunies Ross Resource Rent Tax has been applied in many countries, including Australia for offshore petroleum (the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, PRRT). Professor Garnaut will assess the proposed Resources Super Profits Tax as a form of mineral rent taxation, discuss transitional issues, and analyse its interaction with other policy issues in the resource sector — including Climate Change and carbon pricing, and the two-speed economy.