This special Fireside Chat has been recorded to accompany the launch on to DSO of the Economics Toolkit. That Toolkit has been prepared by Dr Phil Hellier, a senior lecturer at Deakin in the School of Accounting, Economics and Finance. It consists of some 50 power-point slides, arranged in a Roadmap to enable users to “drill down” to particular points of interest. Guidance in converting the slides to the Roadmap presentation was provided by Dr Rodney Carr, the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Business and Law.

The School of Law is grateful to both these colleagues, and to John Wiley and Sons, the publishers of M.Browning & M. Zupan’s Microeconomics: Theory and Applications, 8th edition, from whose text Phil has adapted, with the publisher’s permission, the slides in the Toolkit. These slides are restricted to students in MLL 409, Competition Law and Policy, so this Fireside Chat may not be suited to external listeners.

This special Fireside Chat highlights some of the slides of particular relevance to our subject, and, in doing so, refers to a number of cases included in the Clarke and Corones Casebook. These cases are:

Tru Tone v Festival Records
TPC v Arnotts
News v ARL (judgement of Burchett J at first instance with reference to market
definition issues-see paras 75-167. This aspect was not challenged on appeal).
TPC v AMH
TPC v Ansett
TPC v Email
TPC v David Jones.

My apologies that the Toolkit is somewhat large to access on DSO and that this chat is some 5 minutes longer than normal. I am investigating solutions to the former problem.

Click here to listen to the fireside chat.