Policy Spring 2000
Vol. 16 No. 3 (Spring, 2000) Policy Spring 2000 Issue.-
FEATURE: Getting Past The Cost
| 09 Sep 2000Contrary to popular belief, deregulation of higher education would improve not reduce access to a university education for those from low-income backgrounds.
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FEATURE: An ANZAC dollar
| 09 Sep 2000Small countries like Australia and New Zealand are finding money management increasingly difficult in the face of the strong- and sometimes apparently irrational- international capital flows. Maybe they should join forces to crate a single currency.
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FEATURE: United we stand?
| 09 Sep 2000
The pros and cons of Currency Union.
The volatility and plummeting value of both the Australian and New Zealand dollars has renewed interest in the idea of a joint currency. Most of the costs and benefits fall on New Zealand as the smaller country in such a union.
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FEATURE: Setting the Record Straight
| 09 Sep 2000
Free Trade, NGOs and the WTO.
The anti-globalisation coalitition conceals some very powerful entrenched interest groups opposed to trade liberalisation. Multilateral trade rules are still important, but the new political forces in play are dangerous.
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INTERVIEW: The Art of the Economy
| 09 Sep 2000
Stability, growth and philosophy: Wolfgang Kasper talks to Heinz W. Arndt.
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COMMENT: Why Cultures Succeed Or Fail
| 06 Jun 2000
Communal Order versus Market Prosperity
Not all cultures are equal. Like it or not, some cultures are better able to provide law, security, order, prosperity, freedom and institutional pluralism that people in the year 2000 expect.
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COMMENT: The Gang of Three: Mao, Jesus and Hayek
| 09 Sep 2000The transformation of China is real, not because the leaders in Bejing want such change, but because their openings to trade and investment have led to cracks in the system which the Chinese people are quick to exploit.
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COMMENT: Civil Society
| 09 Sep 2000
Are Citizens the Servants or the Masters of Government?
When politicians extol the virtues of civil society, they are often asking citizens to conbributwe to collective goals. This has nothing to do with the original concept of civil society, in which individuals freely pursue their own private interests.
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REVIEW: Gods That fail
| 09 Sep 2000
The Second Annual Darwin Lecture: A Darwinian Left? Delivered by Peter Singer (London School of Economics, 2000.)
Forget Karl Marx. The Left is now being exhorted by Peter Singer to embrace the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin.
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REVIEW: Rethinking Australia's Defence
| 09 Sep 2000
Defence Review 2000- Our Future Defence Force A Public Discussion Paper (Department of Defence, Canberra, 2000.)
Australia's defence planners need to think seriously about organising the Defence Force for broader security roles instead of traditional defence operations.
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BOOK REVIEW: Capitalism, Democracy and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery
| 09 Sep 2000Capitalism, Democracy and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery by John Mueller (Princeton University Press, 1999.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Irrational Exuberance
| 09 Sep 2000Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller (Princeton University, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out?
| 09 Sep 2000The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out? Edited by Stephen Bell (Cambridge University Press, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Law's order
| 09 Sep 2000Law's Order: What it has to do wtih Law and Why It Matters David D. Friedman (Princeton University Press, 2000.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Behavioural Law and Economics
| 09 Sep 2000Behavioural Law and Economics Cass R. Sunstein (ed) (Cambridge University Press.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Consolations of Philosophy
| 09 Sep 2000The Consolations of Philosophy Alain de Bolton (Hamish Hamilton.)
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SCHOOL'S BRIEF: Inequality of Wealth and Incomes
| 09 Sep 2000The mantra that the rich are getting richer and the poor area getting poorer misses the point: inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy.
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COMMENT: Renewing the Social Fabric: Mutual Obligation and Work for the Dole
| 09 Sep 2000Nearly everything the Coalition Government does is challenged on the suspicion that it is trying to reduce spending in order to give tax cuts to the rich. This is a travesty of its objectives and motives for which it is partly to blame.
