Independent political economist
Synopsis
Policy and research interests: economic planning, theory and design of collective ownership, collective choice over economic growth, democratic theory.
Economics Panel Head for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network public inquiry into Australian foreign relations and defence policy (2020-2022).
Selected publications
Satterlee, C. (2025). The Australian Greens’ public property developer: An input-output analysis. Australian Economic Papers, 64(1), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8454.12376
Satterlee, C. (2026). The marginalist Marxism of Tugan-Baranovsky: A constrained optimisation approach to socialist planning. The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2674636
Media
Prime minister must go back to the future
The Canberra Times, May 31, 2025, p. 39.
Learning from China’s economic model
The Canberra Times, November 17, 2023, p. 62.
There’s no such thing as a ‘real’ democracy
The Canberra Times, April 15, 2023, p. 27.
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Let’s rethink how we choose who is paid what
The Canberra Times, September 15, 2020, p. 45.
Are government-run enterprises inherently inefficient?
The Canberra Times, June 11, 2020, p.23.
Time for a sector-wide aviation plan
The Canberra Times, April 23, 2020, p. 14.
Chad Satterlee 
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