Policy Spring 1999
Vol. 15 No. 3 (Spring, 1999) Policy Spring 1999 Issue.-
EDITORIAL: Spring 1999
| 09 Sep 1999Editorial for POLICY Magazine Spring 1999.
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FEATURE: Crony Capitalism and the East Asian Currency and Financial 'Crises'
| 09 Sep 1999The East Asian 'crisis' has been marked be a plethora of bad debts including the, as yet, uncounted debts to Japanese banks.
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FEATURE: Civil Society and Development: The Missing Link
| 09 Sep 1999Societies in East Asia are in a process of democratisation. The process of democratic consolidation and the nature of democracy that exists in a society are perhaps reflected in the strength of its civil society.
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FEATURE: The Mont Pelerin Society Bali Meeting
| 09 Sep 1999The need remains to continue restating the case for the principles of classical liberalism in the West. A window of opportunity has also opened for the dissemination of liberal ideas in the new polities of the Asia Pacific region.
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FEATURE: A Critique of Cultural Protectionism
| 09 Sep 1999"Australian television will not look Australian until we have effective regulation requiring more local content, particularly more drama." ('TV- Make It Australian' Committee booklet, 1989)
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INTERVIEW: Papal Revolutions, Political Habits and Predatory States
| 09 Sep 1999Jason Soon talks to Deepak Lal.
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FEATURE: Gambling: Not The Worst Bet
| 09 Sep 1999
Ever dogged by controversy, gambling has a long and colourful history and is once again under the microscope.
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COMMENT: The Awful Consequences of the CAP
| 09 Sep 1999
A look at the grosser absurdities and paradoxes of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP.)
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COMMENT: Family Policy for the New Millenium
| 09 Sep 1999Few people would dispute that the life of our children is more uncertain today than at any stage since the Second World War.
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COMMENT: The Goods and Services Tax: Enforceable Guidelines
| 09 Sep 1999
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has established an enforcement program directed primairly at retailers. Present competitive markets are not completely efficient in allocating resources. No economic structrure will ever be immune to improvement.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: The Quality of Mercy
| 09 Sep 1999Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility: For and Against by David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin (Cambridge University Press, 1998.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconsitution of Social Order
| 09 Sep 1999
The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconsitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama (Free Press, 1999.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Destiny Will Out
| 09 Sep 1999Destiny Will Out: The Experience of a Multicultural Malayan in White Australia by Arasa (Minerva Press, 1998.)
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SCHOOL'S BRIEF: Australia's Prospects in the Global Economy
| 09 Sep 1999Selected economic excerpts from State of the Nation 1999.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Spring 1999
| 09 Sep 1999
Rafe's Round-Up POLICY Magazine Spring 1999.
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Book Review: States of Health: Health and Illness in Australia
| 09 Sep 1999
States of Health: Health and Illness in Australia (3rd Ed.) by Janet George and Alan Davis (Longman, 1998.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Economics and Australian Health Policy
| 09 Sep 1999Economics and Australian Health Policy edited by Gavin Mooney and Richard Scotton (Allen & Unwin, 1998.)
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COMMENT: Uniform Commercial Laws: The Merits of Wallis Recommendation 114
| 09 Sep 1999
In its final report in March 1997, the Wallis Committee expressed the view that reform of the regulatory framework could yield significant efficiencies and reduce costs.
