Policy Summer 2001
Vol. 17 No. 4 (Summer, 2001) Policy Summer 2001 Issue.-
FEATURE: Immigration Policy for an Age of Mass Movement
| 12 Dec 2001
A rational immigration policy should aim to enrich the host nation whilst doing what it can to reduce opposition to the social consequences of immigration.
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FEATURE: Stelzer on Immigration: Some lessons for Australia
| 12 Dec 2001
Economics- both through theoretical research and empirical studies- can play an important role in formulating a rational immigration policy.
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FEATURE: The Roots of Muslim Rage
| 12 Dec 2001
Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified.
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INTERVIEW: CIS At Twenty-Five
| 12 Dec 2001
Founder of The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), Greg Lindsay, chats with Frank Devine about the intellectual traditions and ideas that led him to form CIS back in 1976, and that will sustain CIS until 2026 and beyond.
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FEAUTURE: Private Property Without Rights
| 12 Dec 2001The Cold War is over and we are no longer in danger of wholesale socialism. But we still face the continual erosion of our liberties in a piecemeal fashion through ever-increasing government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy.
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FEATURE: Economic Freedom Watch
| 12 Dec 2001Our civilisation cannot prosper without economic freedom and other liberties. Which is why Australians must remain vigilant in the face of petty and not-so-petty government interventions and regulations that degrade economic freedom.
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FEATURE: What Value The Rural Environment?
| 12 Dec 2001Neither past nor current schemes for addressing environmental decline in rural adn regional Australia have been considered in light of the costs of their implementation relative to the benefits they are expected to generate.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
| 12 Dec 2001
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001.)
This important new contribution to public policy painstakingly dissects what the author, a former Greenpeace member, calls the 'Litany of our ever-deteriorating environment', and debunks the apocalyptic predictions of environmental doomsayers.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Wellbeing of Nations: The Role of Human and Social Capital
| 12 Dec 2001The Well-being of Nations: The Role of Human and Social Capital by Tom Healy and Sylvain Côté (OECD, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: In Defence of Free Capital Markets
| 12 Dec 2001In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The case against a new international financial architecture by David F. DeRosa (Bloomberg Press, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Volatility Machine
| 12 Dec 2001The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse by Michael Pettis (Oxford University Press, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twenty-First Century
| 12 Dec 2001Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twenty-First Century John J. Kirton, Joseph P. Daniels and Andreas Freytag (Ashgate, 2001.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming
| 12 Dec 2001The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming by Partick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr. (Cato Institute, 2000.)
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OBITUARY: Ross McDonald Parish
| 12 Dec 2001Ross Parish specialised in agricultural economics, but he also made valuable contributions to many other areas such as trade, the environment and education.
