Policy Winter 1992
Vol. 8 No. 2 (Winter, 1992) POLICY Magazine Winter 1992 issue.-
FEATURE: Scope and Limits of the Property-Rights Approach to Species Preservation
| 04 Jun 1992Recognition is growing of the role that markets and property rights can play in protecting the environment. An exploration of the potential of this approach to promote species preservation.
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FEATURE: A Species Worth Preserving
| 06 Jun 1992
Perspectives on animal treatment and the environment.
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FEATURE: The Compliance Costs of Income Taxation in Australia
| 06 Jun 1992The compliance costs of income taxation incurred by Australian individuals and companies are relatively high, indicating considerable potential gains from tax simplification.
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FEATURE: Australia's Path of Telecommunications Reform
| 06 Jun 1992The argument that the Australian government's attempts to manage the path of telecommunications reform may prevent of delay the emergence of the fully competitive markets scheduled for 1997.
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FEATURE: Reforming Australia's Railways: The Privatisation Option
| 06 Jun 1992The inefficiency of Australia's railway is estimated to cost $5 billion annually. An assessment of the potential role of privatisation in enhancing rail efficiency.
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FEATURE: Australia's Airline Deregulation: The Next Stage
| 06 Jun 1992An assessment of the likely impact of the changes in Australia's aviation policy announced in February and May-June 1992, concluding that the most significant potential gains would flow from deregulation at the international level.
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FEATURE: Sense and Nonsense About Soil Degradation
| 06 Jun 1992
"Apart from soil erosion there is little evidence that degradation of farming soils is a serious problem in Australia."
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FEATURE: Improving Urban Planning: The Case of New South Wales
| 06 Jun 1992The NSW Department of planning is proposing changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act. A review of these proposals, highlighting the difficulties of making urban planning efficient and equitable.
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CRITICAL REVIEW: Some Recent Studies of Australia's Foreign and Defence Policies
| 06 Jun 1992
Security and Defence: Pacific and Global Perspectives edited by Desmond Ball and Cathy Downes (Allen & Unwin, 1990)
Agenda for the Nineties: Australian Choices in Foreign and Defence Policy edited by Coral Bell (Longman Cheshire, 1991)
Australia's Regional Security edited by Greg Fry (Allen & Unwin, 1991.) -
BOOK REVIEW: Transition to What?
| 06 Jun 1992The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in the USSR edited by Chandran Kukathas, David W. Lovell and William Maley (Longman Cheshire, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Dissecting the Green Society
| 06 Jun 1992Reconciling Economics and the Environment edited by Jeff Bennett and Walter Block (Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Lessons of Confucius
| 06 Jun 1992Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialisation by Robert Wade (Princeton University Press, 1990)
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BOOK REVIEW: No Freedom to Fail
| 06 Jun 1992Preferential Policies: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell (William Morrow, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Soaking the Rich
| 06 Jun 1992A Capital Gains Tax for New Zealand by Rick Krever and Neil Brooks (Institute of Policy Studies, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Community or Area?
| 06 Jun 1992Rethinking the Pacific by Gerald Segal (Oxford University Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Combining Invention and Innovation
| 06 Jun 1992The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr (Oxford University Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Socialism For Our Time
| 06 Jun 1992Conservation For Our Time by Torbjorn Tannsjo (Routledge, 1990.)
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CIS PUBLICATION UPDATE: Winter 1992
| 06 Jun 1992CIS Publication Update for POLICY Winter 1992.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: LEAN Times Ahead?
| 06 Jun 1992The Federal Attorney-General's Department is spearheading a proposal to establish a system known as the Law Enforcement Access Network (LEAN.)
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SCHOOLS' BRIEF: GATT and the Uruguay Round: A Future for Free Trade?
| 06 Jun 1992The role of GATT in promoting multilateral trade is explained by Keith Hughes.
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OBITUARY: George Stigler
| 06 Jun 1992Obituary for George Stigler, 1911-1991.
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LETTERS: Winter 1992
| 06 Jun 1992Letters and Correspondence, POLICY Magazine Winter 1992
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Winter 1992
| 06 Jun 1992
Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Winter 1992.
