Policy Winter 1993
Vol. 8 No. 2 (Winter, 1993) POLICY Magazine Winter 1993.-
FEATURE: East Asian Dynamism and Pacific Cooperation
| 06 Jun 1993Fading prospects for a successful conclusion to the GATT Uruguay Round are directing attention to regional trading arrangements. Ippei Yamazawa advocates an 'open economic association' for the Asia-Pacific region that provides for trade facilitation rather than trade preferences.
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FEATURE: New Zealand's Electoral Reform
| 06 Jun 1993In November 1993 New Zealanders will vote not only in a general election but also in a binding referendum on electoral reform. An argument for the option of retaining the present first-past-the-post electoral system in combination with a new upper house of parliament.
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FEATURE: A Future for Economic Rationalism
| 06 Jun 1993Economic rationalism owes much to new insights in technical and organisational evolution, industrial history, the new institutional economics and moral philosophy.
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FEATURE: Reforming Australia's Utilities: Deregulation and Regulation
| 06 Jun 1993Improving the performance of Australia's state-owned and privatised utilities is a major component of the economic reform program. Rodney Maddock argues against current proposals for a centralised competition watchdog and advocates a decentralised system of utility regulation that retains a role for the States.
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FEATURE: Should Depreciation Allowances be Accelerated?
| 06 Jun 1993In 1992 Australia's federal government introduced accelerated rates of depreciation on plant and equipment in the pursuit of 'an internationally competitive business tax regime'. An argument that, subject to some qualifications, accelerated depreciation encourages wasteful investment and diverts investment projects away from the firms best equipped to undertake them.
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FEATURE: Australian Coastal Shipping: Cabotage or Contestability
| 06 Jun 1993Australia's geography, pattern of comparative advantage, and export orientation make efficient coastal shipping a necessity. A review of a decade of reform in the industry and assesses its future.
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FEATURE: America's Bureaucratic Crisis of Education
| 06 Jun 1993
American education can be revitalised only by abandoning the trend towards central bureaucratic planning and returning to the decentralised and individualised forms of learning in which America used to excel.
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INTERVIEW: The Liberal Utopia
| 06 Jun 1993An interview with Mario Vargads Llosa.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Business of Business Ethics
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The Morality of Business Enterprise by Norman Barry (Aberdeen University, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Compendious Dullness
| 06 Jun 1993Australia's Foreign Relations in the World by the 1990s by Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant (Melbourne University Press, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Correcting Correctness
| 06 Jun 1993Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony by Robert B. Edgerton (Free Press, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Threat to Liberal Education
| 06 Jun 1993
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza (The Free Press, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Introducing Cultural Studies
| 06 Jun 1993Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction by Andrew Milner (Allen & Unwin, 1991.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Disestablishing Public Education
| 06 Jun 1993C/CSA is a working example of a market solution to the national education crisis. While public education remains mired in poor academic performance and financial crises, the private sector is proving that free-market enterprises are vastly more efficient, more creative and and more responsive than government bureaucracies.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Australia's Ever Growing State
| 06 Jun 1993
"Contrary to widespread belief, government in Australia did not become smaller in the 1980s. It got bigger."
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Lessons of the "Fightback!" Strategy
| 06 Jun 1993Although, the Liberal-National Coalition's Fightback! strategy in the March 1993 Australian general election was a failure, it was an important experiment that holds some significant lessons. And it has done some good for Australia, even if unintentionally.
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NOTES & COMMENT: Property Rights and China's Economic Reform
| 06 Jun 1993A response to Wills and Yang.
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Why Socialism Failed
| 06 Jun 1993
An account of the failure of socialism in its several variants either to pave the way for 'true communism' or to maintain itself as a viable system.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Winter 1993
| 06 Jun 1993Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Winter 1993.
