Policy Winter 1991
Vol. 7 No. 2 (Winter, 1991) POLICY Magazine Winter 1991.-
FEATURE: The Interminable Debate: Free Trade Versus Protection
| 06 Jun 1991Despite the Hawke Government's recent announcement of a program of tariff cuts to be implemented throughout the 1990s, protectionist sentiment in Australia remains strong. John Fogarty shows that protectionism has deep roots in Australian history and culture, and goes on to expose the central fallacies of the protectionist case.
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FEATURE: The Seen and the Not Seen: Frederic Bastiat's Critique of Protection
| 06 Jun 1991Free Trade Versus Protection Debate Continued: The protectionists are down but not out in New Zealand. Protectionist stirrings are afoot even though freer trade is allowing consumers to enjoy a greater range of goods at lower prices than ever before.
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FEATURE: Anicent and Modern Ideas About Infrastructure
| 06 Jun 1991Improving the efficiency of infrastructure involves more rational pricing policies and greater scope for the private sector in infrastructure provision. James Cox suggests ways of introducing these changes that are likely to win public support.
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FEATURE: User Rays: The Technology of Electronic Toll Collection
| 06 Jun 1991Electronic Toll Collection is coming into use in several countries and is being considered in connection with the New South Wales government's private tollways program. An outline of the technological features of ETC and its advantages over conventional toll collection mechanisms.
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FEATURE: Restructuring New Zealand's Research and Development Policy
| 06 Jun 1991Research and development policy in New Zealand has undergone a radical reform to achieve greater accountability and contestability and more equitable funding.
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FEATURE: The Risks and Costs of Decriminalising Drugs: A Response to Robert Marks
| 06 Jun 1991In his article, 'The Case for a Regulated Drugs market' (Policy Autumn 1991), Dr Robert Marks argued that the costs of prohibiting drugs exceeded the benefits. David Hawks, Professor of Addiction Studies and Director of the National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse at Perth's Curtin University of Technology, challenges this assessment.
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REJOINDER: The Risks and Costs of Decriminalising Drugs
| 06 Jun 1991A rejoinder to David Hawks' article, The Risks and Costs of Decriminalising Drugs.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: Some Recent Australian Studies of the Greenhouse Effect
| 06 Jun 1991Living in the Greenhouse by Ian Lowe (Scribe Publications, 1989.)
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DEBATE: Comparing Governments and Markets
| 06 Jun 1991The Private Interest Theory Debate: Gordon Tullocks argues.
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DEBATE: Clarifying the Role of Ideas
| 06 Jun 1991The Private Interest Theory Debate: John Hyde weighs in on the argument.
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DEBATE: A Rejoinder
| 06 Jun 1991The Private Interest Theory Debate: John Quiggin's rejoinder. Page 5.
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FEATURE: Business Ethics and the 'Social Audit'
| 06 Jun 1991In the first of two articles on business ethics, Norman Barry examines the argument that business corporations have 'social' obligations that go beyond universal moral obligations.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Foreign Debt Issue
| 06 Jun 1991Australia's Foreign Debt: Myths and Realities by John Pitchford (Allen & Unwin, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: A Slow Uruguay Round But An Invigorated GATT
| 06 Jun 1991The Challenge of Free Trade by Alan Oxley (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Case for Free Banking
| 06 Jun 1991The State and the Monetary System by Kevin Dowd (Philip Allan, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Legitimicacy of European Settlement
| 06 Jun 1991Maori, Paketha and Democracy by Richard Mulgan (Oxford University Press, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Watch This Space
| 06 Jun 1991The Rest of the World is Watching: Tasmania and the Greens edited by Cassandra Pybus and Richard Flanagan (Pan Macmillan, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy
| 06 Jun 1991The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy by John Hirst (Allen & Unwin, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Rationality and Commitment
| 06 Jun 1991Passions within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank (W. W. Norton, 1988.)
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FEATURE: Business Ethics and the 'Social Audit'
| 06 Jun 1991In the first of two articles on business ethics, Norman Barry examines the argument that business corporations have 'social' obligations that go beyond universal moral obligations.
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FEATURE: Resurfacing the Road to Serfdom
| 06 Jun 1991Liberty, choice and consequence.
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FEATURE: The Rise of the State in Education: Part Two: The Abolition of Parental Fees
| 06 Jun 1991In the second of two articles on the growth of state involvement in education, Edwin West describes the defeat of attempts to defend the competitive system of parental fees in England, America and Australia.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Liberalise Landing Rights Before Selling Qantas!
| 06 Jun 1991Mid-1991 could be a turning point in Australia's aviation history.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Constitutional Consequences of the EC Social Charter
| 06 Jun 1991The Single European Market Act, providing for the completion of the internal market of the European Community (EC), is intended to lead to the widespread liberalisation of the EC economy by the end of 1992. However, some of the recent policy proposals emanating from the EC Commission point in the opposite direction.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Retail Petrol Pricing: Is Rack Pricing Anti-Competitive?
| 06 Jun 1991Between late 1988 and early 1989 all the major oil companies in Australia introduced a rack pricing system. An explanation of the impact that rack pricing has had on the retail petrol industry and an argument that rack pricing is not, in itself, anti-competitive.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Winter 1991
| 06 Jun 1991Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Winter 1991.
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FEATURE: Failing Families, Vanishing Australians and the Welfare State
| 06 Jun 1990
Australia's fertility rate, like that of several other Western countries, has fallen well below the level needed to sustain the native-born population. In the first of a series of POLICY articles on fertility and the family, Barry Maley analyses the causes of this decline and argues the causes of this decline and argues for welfare reforms that would increase incentives for family formation and maintenance.
