Policy Autumn 1993
Vol. 9 No. 1 (Autumn, 1993) POLICY Magazine Issue Autumn 1993.-
FEATURE: Market in the Post-Cold War Era: Controlled or Free?
| 03 Mar 1993Since the downfall of communism, other, more subtle threats to freedom have emerged. Amy Sherman identifies four of these threats and assesses their impact on the worldwide movement towards democratic capitalism.
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FEATURE: Why Banning Drugs in Sport Does More Harm Than Good
| 03 Mar 1993The argument that the ban on drugs in sport fails all the tests that regulations must pass if they are to benefit society.
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FEATURE: What's Wrong With Australia's Competition Law
| 03 Mar 1993The application of Australia's Trade Practices Act 1974 is currently the subject of a national review. Warren Pengilley identifies those areas of compeititon law and policy most in need of reform.
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FEATURE: The 'Too Many Doctors' Myth
| 03 Mar 1993
The Australian federal government's National Health Strategy Unit argues that Australia has too many GPs and that their numbers should be reduced through restrictive immigration and medical-school admission policies. Harry Clarke shows that, even under Medicare, health costs are minimised with liberal admission policies for both immigrants and Australian residents.
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FEATURE: Competitive Tendering and Contracting: Recent Experience and Future Policy
| 03 Mar 1993Competitive tendering and contracting have evolved into major instruments for enhancing the efficiency of public services. An evaluation of the performance of these techniques, exploring the scope for extending their reach.
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FEATURE: The Promise and Perils of India's Economic Reforms
| 03 Mar 1993India has lost faith in its post-independence regime of socialist planning. But although the Rao Government has embarked on a program of radical reform, the major political barriers to economic and social liberalisation have yet to be breached, according to Shyam Kamath.
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FEATURE: Are Economists Basically Immoral?
| 03 Mar 1993An edited version of a talk given at the CIS by Paul Heyne:
"All economists insist that voters have no incentive to cast an informed ballot, while the non-economists protest that this is a cynical and immoral view of the world." -
CRITICAL REVIEW: The Do-It-Yourself Economics of Shutdown
| 03 Mar 1993
Shutdown: The Failure of Economic Rationalism and How to Rescue Australia edited by John Carroll and Robert Manne (The Text Publishing Company, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Reviving the Vigorous Virtues
| 03 Mar 1993The Anatomy of Thatcherism by Shirley Robin Letwin (Fontana, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Welfare Generation
| 03 Mar 1993Selfish Generations The Ageing of New Zealand's Welfare State by David Thomson (Bridget Williams Books, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Britain's Experience of Privatisation
| 03 Mar 1993Privatisation: Regulation and Deregulation by Michael E. Beesley (Routledge, in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Military Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
| 03 Mar 1993The Military, the State and Development in Asia and the Pacific edited by Viberto Selochan (Westview, Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Surveying the South Pacific
| 03 Mar 1993The South Pacific: Problems, Issues and Prospects edited by Ramesh Thakur (Macmillan, London in association with the University of Otago, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Ecology of Knowledge
| 03 Mar 1993
Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth: On Universities and the Wealth of Nations by William Warren Bartley III (Open Court, 1990.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: How Australia's National Wealth Rose in the 1980s
| 03 Mar 1993Assets, liabilities and wealth.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Private Property Rights and Economic Growth
| 03 Mar 1993The Case of Rural China 1979-87.
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Australia's Savings Performance
| 03 Mar 1993An analysis of the determinants of saving, arguing that the appropriate level of saving would flow from sustained economic growth and from a tax system that was neutral between saving and consumption.
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LETTER: The Cost of Litigation
| 03 Mar 1993Letter and correspondence for POLICY Magazine Autumn 1993.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Autumn 1993
| 03 Mar 1993Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Autumn 1993.
