Policy Spring 1993
Vol. 9 No. 3 (Spring, 1993) POLICY Magazine Spring 1993 issue.-
RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Spring 1993
| 28 Sep 1993Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Spring 1993.
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FEATURE: Liberalising New Zealand's Economy: Rehabilitation and Recovery
| 09 Sep 1993The economic reforms of the the 1980s in New Zealand constitute one of the most far-fetching liberalisations in modern times.
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FEATURE: Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
| 09 Sep 1993In recent years, two-parent families have lost ground in the welfare state to other groups, especially sole-parent families and the ages.
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COMMENT: For Feature: Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
| 09 Sep 1993Comment for feature article, Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
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COMMENT: Further Comment on FEATURE: Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
| 09 Sep 1993Further comment on feature article, Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
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COMMENT: Continued Comment for FEATURE: Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
| 09 Sep 1993Continued commentary on the feature article, Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
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REJOINDER: for FEATURE: Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
| 09 Sep 1993
James Cox's rejoinder for his feature article, Does the Family Need a Family Policy?
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FEATURE: Urban Consolidation: A Modern Urban Myth
| 09 Sep 1993The Australian Commonwealth Government's Building Better Cities program aims to increase urban residential densities. A summary of the results of research showing that urban consolidation does little to contain urban sprawl.
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FEATURE: The New American City
| 09 Sep 1993Is a new kind of city, without precedent, arising in the United States? If its opportunities are recognised, the long quest to combine the amenities of technological civilisation with the pleasures of natural surrounding may at last be rewarded.
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FEATURE: Fees, Subsidies and the Market for Higher Education
| 09 Sep 1993Mark Harrison argues that despite major reforms since 1988, the continuing absence of price signals and market incentives prevents the emergence of an efficient and responsive higher-education sector in Australia.
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FEATURE: Animal, trees and Morals
| 09 Sep 1993Some modern advocates of species preservation argue that mankind has absolute moral responsibilities in this area and that all the natural world has objective value. Barry Maley examines these arguments.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Is Law Without the State Possible?
| 09 Sep 1993The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State by Bruce L. Benson (Pacfiic Research Institute for Public Policy, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Reinventing Government
| 09 Sep 1993Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler (Addison-Wesley, Massachusetts, 1992).
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BOOK REVIEW: A Defence of Economic Rationalism
| 09 Sep 1993A Defence of Economic Rationalism edited by Chris James, Chris Jones and Andrew Norton (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Taxpayers Beware!
| 09 Sep 1993
The Case for Earmarked Taxes: Government Spending and Public Choice by Ranjit S. Teja and Barry Bracewell Milnes (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1991.)
Charging for Government: User Charges and Earmarked Taxes in Principle and Practice edited by Richard E. Wagner (Routledge, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate
| 09 Sep 1993Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate by Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite (Oxford University Press, 1992).
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BOOK REVIEW: Delivering the Goods
| 09 Sep 1993Urban Goods Movement: A Guide to Policy and Planning by Kenneth Ogden (Ashgate, 1992).
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BOOK REVIEW: Making the Post Competitive
| 09 Sep 1993The Future of Postal Services by Robert Albon (Institute of Economics Affairs, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Ideologies of Urban Management
| 09 Sep 1993Planning, Politics and the State: Political Foundations of Planning Thought by Nicholas Low (Unwin Hyman, 1991.)
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: The Decades of Keynes
| 09 Sep 1993The 1980s had barely come to an end when the mythology of that decade became established.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Australia's Detention of Asian Refugees: No Rule of Law
| 09 Sep 1993The appearance of refugees in Australia has always been a matter of some controversy and has evoked varying responses from the politically prominent, often cutting across party lives.
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Twenty Five Years of Indonesian Economic Policy
| 09 Sep 1993Colin Brown outlines the conduct of economic policy in Indonesia since 1967 and speculates on the possibility that the free-market approach adopted in the 1980s will give way to the selective interventionism advocated by the Minister of Research and Technology, Dr B. J. Habibie.
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OBITUARY: Shirley Robin Letwin
| 09 Sep 1993Obituary for Shirley Robin Letwin, 1924-1993.
