Policy Autumn 1997
Vol. 13 No. 1 (Autumn, 1997) POLICY Magazine Issue Autumn 1997.-
EDITORIAL: Autumn 1997
| 03 Mar 1997Editorial for POLICY Magazine Issue Autumn 1997.
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FEATURE: Character and Community: The Problem of Broken Windows
| 03 Mar 1997Informal controls and the reduction of crime.
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FEATURE: Threats to Freedom: Then and Now
| 03 Mar 1997
The Mont Pelerin Society after 50 years.
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FEATURE: Politically Impossible?
| 03 Mar 1997How ideas, not interests and circumstances, determine public policy.
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FEATURE: The Gestative Propensity of Constitutional Implications
| 03 Mar 1997"Was there something wrong with the implication of reedom of political communication in the first place? In my respectful view, there was."
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FEATURE: Market Definition and The Media: A Reply to Jones
| 03 Mar 1997"Products do not need to be perfect substitutes to be in the same market."
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COMMENT: Direct Democracy: The Case Against
| 03 Mar 1997Politicians have an incentive to get it right- as do their advisers.
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COMMENT: Enforcing APEC
| 03 Mar 1997"The interdependence of member countries in many spheres of interest thus provides a potentially powerful way to enforce APEC."
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COMMENT: On The Fifth Anniversary of Hayek's Death
| 03 Mar 1997With the death of Friedrich A. von Hayek five years ago, we lost a last representative of a gifted generation of classically educated European scholars whose wealth of knowledge seemed inexhaustible.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Great Expectations or Hard Times?
| 03 Mar 1997Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia by John Quiggin (Allen and Unwin, 1996.)
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Transforming Men
| 03 Mar 1997Changing Patterns of Dependency and Dominance in Gender Relation by Geoff Dench (Transaction Publishers, 1996.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
| 03 Mar 1997The Good Society: The Humane Agenda by John Kenneth Galbraith (Sinclair Stevenson, 1996.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s
| 03 Mar 1997The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s edited by Marian Simms (Allen & Unwin, 1996.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Unwelcome Truths: Edmund Burke on Today's Political Conceits
| 03 Mar 1997Unwelcome Truths: Edmund Burke on Today's Political Conceits by Ian Crowe (Research Report 24, The Social Affairs Unit, 1997.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Unhealthy Societies: The Affliction of Inequality
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Unhealthy Societies: The Affliction of Inequality by Richard G. Wilkinson (Routledge, 1996.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Human Wrongs of Indigenous Rights
| 03 Mar 1997The Human Wrongs of Indigenous Rights by Ron Brunton (IPA Backgrounder, Insitute of Public Affairs, 1997.)
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BOOK NOTES: Economic Socialization
| 03 Mar 1997Economic Socialization: The Economic Beliefs and Behaviours of Young People edited by Peter Lunt and Adrian Furnham (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996.)
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BOOK NOTES: The Family: There Is No Other Way
| 03 Mar 1997The Family: There Is No Other Way edited by Bill Muehlenberg, Joseph Santamaria, Peter Westmore and Mary Helen Woods (Australian Family Association, 1996.)
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BOOK NOTE: Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information and Infrastructure
| 03 Mar 1997Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information and Infrastructure edited by Brian Kahin and Charles Nesson (The MIT Press, 1997.)
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SCHOOL'S BRIEF: Unemployment
| 03 Mar 1997
It is widely accepted that the inability of many Australians to find paid work is a serious economic adn social problem and imposes costs on many members of our society, and not just the unemployed.
This article presents a review of the problem through a brief examination four related questions.
1. What is unemployment and how large is the problem?
2. In what ways is it a problem?
3. What causes it?
4. What can be done about it?
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Autumn 1997
| 03 Mar 1997Rafe's Round-Up POLICY Magazine Autumn 1997.
