Michael G. Porter

hideThis article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Style, markup, possible coi issues. Please help if you can. (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: NOTE: This page contains political opinion and lacks sufficient references. Please help if you can. (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article uses bare URLs, which may be threatened by link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill (documentation). (July 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Michael G. Porter is an Australian academic economist who taught at the Australian National University (Canberra) and Monash University (Melbourne). In 1979, he set up a think-tank at Monash University, the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) ^[1] which advocated extreme free-market/no regulation views.^[2] He is also the founding director of Tasman Institute from 1990-98^[3]

[NOTE: CoPS has since radically changed in character and now resides at Victoria University]^{[citation needed]}

Early Life[]

Michael Porter studied Bachelor of Economics in University of Adelaide and did his PhD in Stanford University ^[4]

Career[]

After his PhD, he worked with the International Monetary Fund where along with Pentti Kouri developed the Kouri-Porter model, the first reliable model of capital movements offsetting monetary policy on International Capital Flows and Portfolio Equilibrium ^[5]. He played a lead role in analysing and modelling the reasons why countries had to float the Discount Margins (DM) and open capital markets to restore control of the money supply and inflation. This monetary pressure came from US and global capital markets in the context of the Lyndon B. Johnson deficit funded Vietnam War.

Think-tanks in Australia[]

In 1990, the Australian Michael G Porter set up his second economic think-tank outside the University. This was the Tasman Institute which was difficult to distinguish from his private consulting firm Tasman Asia Pacific.^[6] These organisations were interlinked in some way with the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs (IPA run by Liberal Federal MP John Hyde) and its offshoot, the Sydney Institute controlled by Gerard Henderson. Also part of this grouping was the HR Nicholls Society and the Centre for International Studies (CIS run by Greg Lindsay in both Sydney and New Zealand).^[7][8][9]

Tasman Institute[]

Porter founded the Tasman Institute think tank in 1990. He later merged it with ACIL [unknown origin] to form ACIL Tasman, which would later merge again with the Allen Consulting Group to form ACIL Allen Consulting (c 2014).

References[]