Policy Summer 1993
Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer, 1993)POLICY Magazine Summer 1993 issue.
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FEATURE: The Riddle of The Social Market Economy
| 12 Dec 1993Despite the collapse of communism, Western intellectuals remain sceptical of market capitalism. An exploration of the origin and meaning of the idea of the 'social market economy' that is emerging as the favoured candidate to replace socialism.
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EDITORIAL: Summer 1993
| 12 Dec 1993
Editorial for POLICY Magazine Summer 1993 issue.
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FEATURE: Employment Policies Don't Work
| 12 Dec 1993Wage subsidies and public sector job creation are seen by some as a desirable response to the problem of unemployment.
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FEATURE: Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
| 12 Dec 1993Reserve bank independence has been proposed as a way of increasing the stability of monetary policy.
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FEATURE: The Middle of the Social Market Economy
| 12 Dec 1993
Despite the collapse of communism, Western intellectuals remain sceptical of market capitalism.
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COMMENT: On Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
| 12 Dec 1993Tom Valentine on Tony Makin's Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
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COMMENT: Further Comments on Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
| 12 Dec 1993David Archer comments on Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
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COMMENT: Further Views on Reserve Bank Independence or a Money Growth Rule?
| 12 Dec 1993
Michael Parkin comments on Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
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COMMENT: Rejoinder for Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
| 12 Dec 1993Tony Makin's rejoinder for his article, Reserve Bank Independence or a Money-Growth Rule?
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FEATURE: Supporting Mothers, Twenty Years On
| 12 Dec 1993Government support for sole parents has increased spectacularly over the last twenty years. The level of benefits is now at a level that some working parents stand to gain little from being in the workforce. A report questioning the rationale behind the growth in benefits.
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FEATURE: Capitalism and Culture
| 12 Dec 1993The challenge to free enterprise today isn't economic or political: it's cultural.
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FEATURE: South Africa's First Post-Apartheid Administration: Prognosis for an ANC Government
| 12 Dec 1993An examination of the bleak economic landscape facing a future South African government, and reflects on how an ANC administration will handle the inevitable political problems unmet material expectations will bring.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Mabo: A Judicial Revolution
| 12 Dec 1993
Mabo: A Judicial Revolution- The Aboriginal Land Rights Decision and Its Impact on Australian Law edited by M.A. Stephenson and Suri Ratnapala (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1993).
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Reviewing the Australian Legend
| 12 Dec 1993
The Nervous Nineties: Australian Cultural Life in the 1890s by John Docker (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991.)
Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for Identity edited by John Carroll (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992.)
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From the Prophets Deserts Come: The Struggle to Reshape Australian Political Culture by Boris Frankel (Boris Frankel and Arena Publishing, Melbourne, 1992).
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Elected Conventions and Constitutional Change
| 12 Dec 1993This article proposes that constitutional change can be initiated in an elected constitutional change be initiated in an elected constitutional convention.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Drugs in Sport
| 12 Dec 1993The ban on drugs has failed to stop drug usage or to protect the lives and health of athletes.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Property Rights and China's Economic Reform
| 12 Dec 1993Property rights are multi-dimensional. They consist of rights to use, to transfer and to appropriate earnings from property, which must be seperately specified and enforced for each kind of property.
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BOOK REVIEW: Unfinished Business
| 12 Dec 1993Unfinished Business by Roger Douglas (Random House, Auckland, 1993.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle
| 12 Dec 1993Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America by Lester Thurwow (Morrow, New York, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Idea of Civil Society
| 12 Dec 1993The Idea of Civil Society by Adam Seligman (The Free Press, New York, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws
| 12 Dec 1993Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws by Richard A. Epstein (Harvard University Press, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Black Suffering, White Guilt
| 12 Dec 1993Black Suffering, White Guilt? by Ron Brunton (Institute of Public Affairs, 1993.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century
| 12 Dec 1993Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century by Brij V. Lal (University of Hawaii Press, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Moral Foundations of Market Institutions
| 12 Dec 1993The Moral Foundations of Market Institutions by John Gray (Institute of Economic Affairs, Health and Welfare Unit, 1992.)
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits
| 12 Dec 1993The government's budget deficit is the most common, but sometimes least informative measure of its fiscal policy stance.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Summer 1993
| 12 Dec 1993Rafe's Round-Up: Summer 1993.
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FEATURE: Keeping the Australian Republic
| 12 Dec 1993Harry Evans, Clerk of the Senate, draws on Republican theory and practice to show that federalism is not an obstacle to Australian republicanism, but is needed to preserve the republic principles of popular sovereignty and elected institutions in Australia.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: CER and Australian Cultural Protection
| 12 Dec 1993The Services Protocol was expected to be the major instrument in the development of free trade in the services sector. But whereas New Zealand has taken major steps in this direction, Australia, by a range of restrictions designed to protect the domestic broadcasting industry, has effectively prevented the greater integration of broadcasting markets.
