Policy Autumn 1991
Vol. 7 No. 1 (Autumn, 1991) POLICY Magazine Autumn 1991.-
FEATURE: Saying Farewell to Welfare: The End of Sweden's 'Third Way'
| 03 Mar 1991The Swedish government's recent proposals to cut public spending and to seek membership of the European Community signify the end fo the country's social democratic experiment.
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FEATURE: Ending Aboriginal Poverty
| 03 Mar 1991Aboriginal self-determination and land rights policies have done nothing to stem the growth in Aboriginal unemployment that is the basic cause of Aboriginal poverty. Welfare programs need to give priority to bringing long-term unemployed Aborigines into the workforce.
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FEATURE: There's Nothing Wrong with Australia's Trade Mix
| 03 Mar 1991Arguments that Australia should increase its exports of manufactured goods frequently overlook the elementary economics of comparative advantage.
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FEATURE: Privatising Australia's Ports
| 03 Mar 1991
The current reform of Australia's ports has baerly begun to bring them up to international standards of efficiency.
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FEATURE: New Zealand's Mining Policy: Rights and Wrongs
| 03 Mar 1991Proposed reforms to New Zealand's mining policy will fail to solve the problems of the presents system because they neglect the fundamental issue of mineral ownership.
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FEATURE: Australia's National Soil Conservation Strategy: Land Use Planning vs Free Markets
| 03 Mar 1991Present policies to combat land degradation are based on questionable assumptions and that the problem is for the most part being solved privately by individual farmers.
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FEATURE: The Case for a Regulated Drugs Market
| 03 Mar 1991Social costs of prohibiting drugs far outweigh the social benefits, and supports the Cleeland Report's (1989) recommendation of a regulated drugs market.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Rationalist or Anti-Rationalist?
| 03 Mar 1991Chandran Kukathas' Hayek and Modern Liberalism.
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FEATURE: The Private Interest Theory of Politics: Liberal or Authoritarian
| 03 Mar 1991Many liberals have accepted the private interest theory of politics as an explanation of the political obstacles to economic reform.
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FEATURE: The Private Interest Theory of Politics: Liberal or Authoritarian?
| 03 Mar 1991Many liberals have accepted the private interest theory of politics as an explaination of the political obstacles to eocnomic reform.
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FEATURE: The Rise of the State in Education: Part One: The Intellectual Background
| 03 Mar 1991In the first of two articles documenting the growth of state involvement in education, Edwin West traces the decline of the classical political economists' ideal of private, competitive education and its replacement by compulsory, state-subsidised schooling.
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FEATURE: Transition to Freedom? The Cato Institute's Moscow Conference
| 03 Mar 1991In September 1990, the Cato Institute held a conference in Moscow entitled Transition to Freedom: the New Soviet Challenge. The conference was organised around two main themes: 'The Soviety Economy in Transition: From Planned Chaos to Spontaneous Order' and 'Beyond the Cold War: Creating a New Soviety- US Relationship'. Ross Parish gives an account of the conference discussion on the former theme.
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BOOK REVIEW: Not Transforming Industrial Relations
| 03 Mar 1991Transforming Industrial Relations edited by Michael Easson and Jeff Shaw (Pluto Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: New Zealand: Isolation and Foreign Policy
| 03 Mar 1991New Zealand: Isolation and Foreign Policy by Denis McLean (Pacific Security Research Institute, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Age of Illusion
| 03 Mar 1991The Age of Democracy: The Politics of Post Fordism by John Matthews (Oxford University Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Apartheid as Rent Seeking
| 03 Mar 1991South Africa's War Against Capitalism by Walter Williams (Praeger, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Economic Growth vs Rent Seekers
| 03 Mar 1991Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History by E. L. Jones (Clarendon Press, 1988) and Human History and Social Progress by Johan Goudsblom, E. L. Jones and Stephen Mennell (University of Exeter Press, 1989.)
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NOTES & COMMENTS: The Economic Case for an Open-Door Immigration Policy
| 03 Mar 1991A discussion of the Harrison rule and immigration.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Rejoinder to Clarke and Ng
| 03 Mar 1991A rejoinder to Clarke and Ng's The Economic Case for an Open-Door Immigration Policy.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Autumn 1991
| 03 Mar 1991Rafe's Round-up for POLICY Magazine Autumn 1991.
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FEATURE: Comparable Worth: An Evaluation Nightmare
| 06 Jun 1991Although the comparable worth method of wage-setting has so far made little progress in Australia, its chances of being adopted could be enhanced by any future relaxation of the centralised wage-fixing system.
