29.07.2010 - Mining sector has had too big a say on resource tax: Stiglitz

From Smh.com.au: Nobel Prize-winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz has warned that the mining sector has too much influence on the political debate on Australia's mining tax. The former World Bank chief economist drew parallels between the advertising campaign run by the Australian mining industry on the resource rent tax and the US finance industry's ability to water down finance-sector reforms passed by Congress..............................................Full Article: Source

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