Policy Winter 2002
Vol. 18 No. 2 (Winter, 2002) Policy Magazine Winter 2002 issue.-
FEATURE: Has History Started Again?
| 06 Jun 2002
Are we seeing the start of a decades-long 'clash of civilisations' between the West and radical Islam, or will modernity remain the dominant force in world politics?
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FEATURE: The Truth About Sanctions Against Iraq
| 06 Jun 2002Critics of UN sanctions against Iraq, who claim that the embargo is responsible for the deaths of more than half a million children under five years of age, are undermining their own case by using exaggerated figures. The truth is bad enough.
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FEATURE: Must the Good Guys Always Lose?
| 06 Jun 2002With multilateral progress in agricultural trade reform stalled, a way has to be found to change the policy debate in the main protectionist countries- the United States and the European Union.
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FEATURE: Living With a Marsupial Mouse: Lessons from Celebration, Florida
| 06 Jun 2002Celebration, a private community developed by The Disney Corporation in Florida, indicates how diversity and experiments in living, as well as competition between different kinds of local authority, can be realised in a practical manner. But could it happen here?
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INTERVIEW: The Spectator In the Breast of Man: Self-Regulation and The Decline of Civility
| 06 Jun 2002Weekly columnist for The Spectator and author of the recently released book, Life at the Bottom, Theodore Dalyrmple, talks about the underclass culture that is spreading through British society- what American social scientist Charles Murray has dubbed the 'proletarianisation' of the elite.
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COMMENT: Poor Concepts: 'Social Exclusion', Poverty and The Politics of Guilt
| 06 Jun 2002
The widespread use of the concept of 'social exclusion' to refer to poverty and deprivation in Australia is obscuring our understanding of these problems.
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COMMENT: The Politics of Envy
| 06 Jun 2002
Misleading survey income and expenditure data have led to the understatement of low incomes and the overstatement of poverty, both here and overseas.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: A New Angle On Property Rights
| 06 Jun 2002
Hannes H. Gissurarson's Overfishing: The Icelandic Solution; Michael de Alessi's Fishing for Solutions and Roger Bate's Saving our Streams.
Fishing markets established and operated by the state may weaken the power of fishermanand prevent them challening bureaucrats and rent seekers. Such a prospect raises (yet again) the tension between two threads of liberalism- mediating institutions and countervailing power versus free-standiong individuals trading in the marketplace.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Transfer Society
| 06 Jun 2002The Transfer Society by David. N Laband and George C.McClintock (Washington DC: The Cato Institute, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Inspiring Economics: Human Motivation In Political Economy
| 06 Jun 2002Inspiring Economics: Human Motivation in Political Economy by Bruno Fey (Edward Elgar, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Australians and Globalisation: The Experiences of Two Centuries
| 06 Jun 2002
Australians and Globalisations: The Experience of Two Centuries by Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts and Gabriella Trifiletti (Cambridge University Press, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: In Defence of Global Capitalism
| 06 Jun 2002In Defence of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg (Stockholm: Timbro, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Elections: Full Free and Fair
| 06 Jun 2002
Elections: Full Free and Fair edited by Marian Sawer (The Federation Press, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment
| 06 Jun 2002
The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment by Indur M. Goklany (Cato Institute, 2001.)
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SCHOOLS BRIEF: Job destruction and job creation
| 06 Jun 2002
"A beginners guide."
Contrary to much political rhetoric, it is private enterprise that creates jobs, not governments, whose interventions often kill jobs.
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OBITUARY: A Tale of Two Refugees
| 06 Jun 2002A tale of two refugees, Heinz Arndt and Peter Bauer. Two refugees from fascism made an outstanding contribution to the development of economics.
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BOOK REVIEW: Robert Nozick
| 06 Jun 2002Robert Novick by A. R. Lacey (Princeton University Press, 2001.)

