Policy Autumn 2001
Vol. 17 No. 1 (Autumn, 2001) Policy Magazine Autumn 2001 Issue.-
FEATURE: Trouble in 'Paradise': The Africanisation of the South Pacific
| 03 Mar 2001
Some of the problems that have plagued states in sub-saharan Africa may well be emerging in the South Pacific as well.
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FEATURE: Learning Racial Harmony: Fiji Needs New Constitutional Rules
| 03 Mar 2001The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable positions.
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FEATURE: Public Broadcasting and the Profit Motive: The Effects of Advertising on SBS
| 03 Mar 2001Changes at SBS have had less to do with advretising and more to do with shifts in government multicultural policy and compliance with the SBS charter.
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FEATURE: Reforming Wages and Welfare Policy: Six Advantages of a Negative Income Tax
| 03 Mar 2001The replacement of all current welfare and wage provisions with a universal but minimal negative income tax would create jobs and reduce welfare dependency.
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INTERVIEW: Seeing the Bigger Picture: The Value of Economic History
| 03 Mar 2001Andrew Norton interviews Eric Jones, one of the world's most prominent economic historians.
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COMMENT: Towards a Liberal Theory of International Relations
| 03 Mar 2001The Rationalist school, with its emphasis on the existence of an international society, is arguably the most liberal of the three main international relations theories.
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COMMENT: The Crisis of Human Rights
| 03 Mar 2001The concept of human rights evolved to buttress liberty by protecting people from excessive state power. Now it is being manipulated to expand the ambit of politics.
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COMMENT: The Market for Social Capital
| 03 Mar 2001Is there creative destruction in society as well as in the economy, with the new driving out some of the old?
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BOOK REVIEW: The Mystery of Capital
| 03 Mar 2001The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto (Basic Books, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Exasperating Calculators
| 03 Mar 2001Exasperating Calculators: The Rage Over Economic Rationalism and the Campaign Against Australian Economists by William Coleman and Alf Hagger (2001, Macleay Press.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Judging Democracy: The New Politics of the High Court of Australia
| 03 Mar 2001Judging Democracy: The New Politics of the High Court of Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2000.)
