Policy Summer 1997
Vol. 13 No. 4 (Summer, 1997) POLICY Magazine Issue Summer 1997.-
EDITORIAL: Summer 1997
| 20 Nov 1997Editorial for POLICY Magazine Summer 1997 issue.
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FEATURE: The New Wealth of Nations
| 12 Dec 1997The nations of North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan are wealthier today than they have ever been, wealthier than any societies in human history. Yet their governments appear to be impoverished.
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FEATURE: The New Wealth of Nations: Australian Postscript
| 12 Dec 1997
Does Australia fit the Bill? As compared with the U.S., our clearest economic failing is unemployment.
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FEATURE: Industrial Policy For Australia
| 12 Dec 1997'Industrial Policy' has been a central feature of economic debates since World War II.
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FEATURE: The New Populism in Australia
| 12 Dec 1997Since the 1970s, Australians have been living through an age of uncertainty or, perhaps more positively, an age of redefinition.
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FEATURE: Looking for Results
| 12 Dec 1997Ronald Coase talks to Thomas Hazlett.
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FEATURE: Postal Services: Public Or Private, Competition or Monopoly?
| 12 Dec 1997A review of Australia Post, considering competition issues such as community service obligations and the legislative standard letter monopoly. Also a look at related issues of public ownership vs. private ownership, and the abolition of the requirement for uniform pricing of letters.
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COMMENT: Does Australia Really Need to Encourage its Innovators to Commercialise In-House?
| 12 Dec 1997The prospect that the Australian economy might have something more than a primary and service industry base bodes well for future prosperity.
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COMMENT: Compulsory Voting- The Australian Anachronism
| 12 Dec 1997While compulsory voting remains largely unchallenged by the electorate, it is doubtful that Australian society would have quietly accepted its introduction in the late 20th Century.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: The Victory- Two Views
| 12 Dec 1997The Victory by Pamela Williams (Allen & Unwin, 1997.)
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Economics and the Environment
| 12 Dec 1997Economics and the Environment: A Signalling and Incentives Approach by Ian Wills (Allen & Unwin, 1997.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Past Wrongs, Future Rights
| 12 Dec 1997Past Wrongs, Future Rights by Michael Warby (Tasman Institute, 1997.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Keeping the Bastards Honest: The Australian Democrats' First Twenty Years
| 12 Dec 1997Keeping the Bastards Honest: The Australian Democrats' First Twenty Years edited by John Warhurst (Allen & Unwin, 1997.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation
| 12 Dec 1997Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation by Bruno S. Frey (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Private Prisons and Public Accountability
| 12 Dec 1997Private Prisons and Public Accountability by Richard Harding (Open University Press, 1997.)
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: International Trade
| 12 Dec 1997
For all its antiquity and contemporary rates of growth, international trade is controversial and much public policy debate is about barriers which are or might be raised against it.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Summer 1997
| 12 Dec 1997Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Summer 1997 issue.
