Policy Spring 2001
Vol. 17 No. 3 (Spring, 2001) Policy Spring 2001 Issue.-
FEATURE: The Case For School Choice and How to Fund It
| 09 Sep 2001The ideal of public education- that every child has access to a good education at public expense- should not be confused with the current system of schooling in Australia. A new approach is clearly needed.
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Australia's Economic Record
| 09 Sep 2001Economic reforms since the 1980s have opened up the economy, but the pact of reform in Australia is still lagging behind industrial country leaders.
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BOOK REVIEW: Academic Success and Social Power: Examinations and inequality
| 09 Sep 2001Academic Success and Social Power: Examinations and Inequality by Richard Teese (Melbourne University Press, 2000.)
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INTERVIEW: Beyond The Welfare State
| 09 Sep 2001
Dismantling the postwar welfare state would reveal a whole set of choices in a world without a government welfare system.
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FEATURE: Faster growth? If New Zealanders want it
| 09 Sep 2001Getting back to around the middle of the OECD pack in terms of GDP per capita will require radical chnges in New Zealanders' attitude and behaviour.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Erosion of Self-Reliance
| 09 Sep 2001The direct reliance on income support from government as the main source of income for people of working age runs directly contrary to the traditional Austalian emphasis on self-reliance and initiative.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Against the Prodigal State
| 09 Sep 2001Governments need to be careful about being compassionate with other people's money when it comes to welfare spending, lest they demonstrate not civic virtue but moral vanity.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Australia is Not Sweden: The Welfare State and National Cultures
| 09 Sep 2001Debates about welfare reform are concentrated in the English speaking countries, where the welfare ethic clashes most with individualistic principles of self-reliance and personal responsibility.
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FEATURE: Malaria and the Anti-DDT Campaign Environmentalism and the Poor
| 12 Dec 2001As environmentalists have campaigned to eliminate DDT over the years, the relationship between decreased DDT use and increasing malaria cases has become very clear.
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FEATURE: The New Global Villains
| 12 Dec 2001The pharmaceutical industry's track record in raising the quality of lief suggests that it would be wise to let the sort of unfettered market competition that has worked well in the past continue in the future.
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TRIBUTE TO LIBERTY: Ludwig Von Mises on his 120th Birthday
| 09 Sep 2001A tribute to one of the most important classical liberal economists and social philosophers of the 20th Century.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Myths of the Welfare State
| 09 Sep 2001Welfare policymakers need to look beyond the old Left and the new Right to those evidence-based policies that can help end the human tragedy of poverty.
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TRIBUTE TO LIBERTY: Why Liberty Flourished in the West
| 09 Sep 2001From Cierco to Locke to Jefferson, when all is said and done, liberty depends on individuals.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Third Sector
| 09 Sep 2001The Third Sector: The Contribution of Nonprofit and Cooperative Enterprises in Australia by Mark Lyons (Allen & Unwin, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
| 09 Sep 2001Friedrich Hayek: A Biography by Alan Ebenstein (Palgrave, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Damned Lies and Statistics
| 09 Sep 2001
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists by Joel Best (University of California Press, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Social policy, public policy: From problem to practice
| 09 Sep 2001Social Policy, Public Policy: From Problem to Practice by Meredith Edwards with Cosmo Howard and Robin Miller (Allen & Unwin, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Anti-Liberalism 2000: The Rise of New Millenium Collectivism
| 09 Sep 2001Anti-liberalism 2000: The Rise of New Millenium Collectivism by David Henderson (Institute of Economic Affairs.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays
| 09 Sep 2001The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays by Roger Sandall (Westview, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Virtue of Prosperity
| 09 Sep 2001The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an age of Techno-Affluence by Dinesh D'Souza (The Free Press, 2000.)
