Policy Spring 1992
Vol. 8 No. 3 (Spring, 1992) POLICY Magazine Spring 1992.-
FEATURE: Economic Reform: A Global Revolution
| 09 Sep 1992The last decade has witnessed a profound and a widespread revision in the conduct of economic policy. A review of this policy revolution and draw some conclusions about the preconditiions of its continuing success.
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FEATURE: The Ecologically Sustainable Development Process
| 09 Sep 1992The Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Working Groups established by the Australian federal government in 1990 have presented their final reports. Ian Wills concludes that their incremental approach to the subject is unlikely to change the views of any of the major interests involved in the ESD process.
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FEATURE: Access to Justice and the Cost of Litigation
| 09 Sep 1992Several inquiries are currently taking place into the high cost of litigation. The argument that the practices and procedures of civil litigation pose a clearer barrier to justice than do the restrictions on competition in the provision of legal services.
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FEATURE: Empowering the Consumer: The Role of Brokerage in Community-Services Provision
| 09 Sep 1992
Service brokerage is a mechanism that promises to transfer control over community services from providers to consumers. An explanation of how the mechanism works and defends it against criticisms of competition in community services.
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FEATURE: Some Social Consequences of Gene Improvement
| 09 Sep 1992Genetic engineering, social ethics and eugenics.
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FEATURE: The Constitutional Minefield of Australian Republicanism
| 09 Sep 1992The principal constitutional obstacles to converting Australia from a monarchy to a republic.
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BOOK REVIEW: Low-Level Caricature
| 09 Sep 1992The Trouble With Economic Rationalism edited by Donald Horne (Scribe Publications, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: A Man-Made Disaster
| 09 Sep 1992The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policies by William Tucker (Regnery Gateway, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Challenging Or Changing The Recipe?
| 09 Sep 1992Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference by Carol Lee Bacchi (Allen & Unwin, 1990.)
Sisters In Suits: Women and Public Policy In Australia by Marian Sawer (Allen & Unwin, 1990.) -
BOOK REVIEW: How The Poor Help The Poor
| 09 Sep 1992Where Credit Is Due: Income Generating Programmes For The Poor In Developing Countries by Joe Remenyi (IT Publications, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: An Agenda For Change
| 09 Sep 1992An Agenda For Change: An International Analysis of Industrial Relations in Transition edited by Oliver Clarke and John Niland (Allen & Unwin, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Information, Privacy and the Welfare State
| 09 Sep 1992Redistribution by Smart Card: Information, Privacy and the Welfare State: An Integrated Approach To The Administration of Redistribution by Mark Prebble (Victoria University Press For The Institute of Policy Studies, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Spirit Of Chinese Capitalism
| 09 Sep 1992The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism by S. Gordon Redding (Walter de Gruyter, 1993.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Law At The Margins
| 09 Sep 1992Law At The Margins: Towards Social Participation by Terry Carney (Oxford University Press, 1991.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Capitalism
| 09 Sep 1992The Virtues of Capitalism by Arthur Seldon (The Liberty Fund.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Virtues
| 09 Sep 1992Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue and Community by Stephen Macedo (U.M.I., 1989)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Prudence or Hysteria?
| 09 Sep 1992The current preoccupation with risks to health.
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SCHOOL'S BRIEF: The Costs of Inflation
| 09 Sep 1992
The view of the Governor of the Reserve Bank probably describes well the common perception of the public perception of inflation.
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LETTERS: Spring 1992
| 09 Sep 1992Letters from James Cox and Terry Ryan from POLICY Magazine Spring 1992.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Spring 1992
| 09 Sep 1992Rafe's Roundup for POLICY Magazine Spring 1992.
