Policy Spring 1990
Vol. 6 No. 3 (Spring, 1990) POLICY Magazine Issue Spring 1990.-
FEATURE: Western Trade Blocs and the New Protectionism
| 09 Sep 1990The gains from reversing the rise of non-tariff trade barriers in the European Community and North America and potentially very great, but public opinion overseas remains largely unaware of them. A summary of the findings of a recent study.
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FEATURE: Reforming New Zealand's Labour Market: Back to Basics
| 09 Sep 1990New Zealand governments have neglected labour market reform, despite the unpopularity of compulsory unionism and of the barriers to resolving workplace problems at the workplace level. Douglas Myers puts the case for a labour law that facilitates employment contracts with appropriate statutory safeguards.
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FEATURE: Australia's Airline Deregulation: How Much Change?
| 09 Sep 1990"In November 1990 Australia's Two Airline Policy will be terminated and replaced by a less regulated market. An assessment of the likely consequences of this change and identification of areas where deregulation could go further."
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FEATURE: Ending Australia's Inflation: The Need For Radical Monetary Reform
| 09 Sep 1990In the Winter 1990 issue of POLICY, Peter Jonson argued that inflation could best be controlled by making this the main task of the Reserve Bank. Kevin Dowd rejects this approach and shows how, as a first step towards a depoliticised money supply, the currency could be made convertible.
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FEATURE: Australia's Economic and Social Immigration Policies: A Labour Market Perspective
| 09 Sep 1990In the Winter 1989 issue of POLICY, Mark Harrison and John Logan proposed that Australia's annual immigration quota should be auctioned and allocated to the highest bidders. The argument that economic immigration would best serve the welfare of Australian residents if existing labour market distortions were removed and employers were free to recruit workers from abroad according to specific needs.
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FEATURE: The Health Effects of Smoking: Misreading The Evidence
| 09 Sep 1990Health promotion policies have popularised the view that smoking is a major cause of fatal disease. In the second of two POLICY articles on the anti-smoking campaign, Peter Finch, Foundation Professor of Statistics at Monash University, argues that evidence cited to show that smoking is harmful to health has been distorted by the anti-smoking lobby in a way that exaggerates the risks and costs associated with smoking.
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FEATURE: Banning Ivory Sales: No Way to Save The Elephant
| 09 Sep 1990
The ban on ivory sales in Central and East Africa is doing much less to preserve the African elephant than commercialisation of elephants and their products in Southern African states, according to Randy T. Simmons and Urs P. Kreuter.
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FEATURE: Economic Nationalism in Papua New Guinea: Insitutions and Instruments
| 09 Sep 1990Well before becoming politically independent in 1975, Papua New Guinea embarked on the quest for economic independence by promoting local ownership and control of its economy. An account of the mechanisms of PNG's economic nationalism and assesses the role of the now closed copper mine at Panguna, Bougainville, in PNG's economy.
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FEATURE: Television Jingoism: The Proposed Limits on Foreign Ownership of Australia's Air Waves
| 09 Sep 1990
"Mr Kim Beazley, Australia's Minister of Transport and Communications, recently proposed limits on foreign ownership of Australian commerical television and radio stations. Ross Jones argues that concern about foreign ownership would be eliminated by the issue of more broadcasting licences."
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CRITICAL REVIEW: Local Government and Competition Tendering: The Evatt Research Centre Critiquing of Contracting Out
| 09 Sep 1990
Breach of Contract: Privatisation and the Management of Australian Local Government by the Evatt Research Centre (Pluto Press, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Microeconomics Reform and the States
| 09 Sep 1990Budgetary Stress: The South Australian Experience edited by Richard Blandy and Cliff Walsh (Allen & Unwin, 1989.)
State of Siege: Renewal or Privatisation for Australian Stat Public Services? by the H. C. Evatt Research Centre (Pluto Press, 1989.) -
BOOK REVIEW: Microeconomics Reform and the States
| 09 Sep 1990Budgetary Stress: The South Australian Experience edited by Richard Blandy and Cliff Walsh (Allen & Unwin, 1989.)
State of Siege: Renewal or Privatisation for Australian Stat Public Services? by the H. C. Evatt Research Centre (Pluto Press, 1989.) -
BOOK REVIEW: Keeping Up the Fight
| 09 Sep 1990The Good Fight: Essays in Honour of Austin Stewart Holmes (1924-1986) edited by Chris Ulyatt (Allen and Unwin, in association with the Australian Institute of Public Policy, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: A Role For Metropolitan Planning
| 09 Sep 1990London 2001 by Peter Hall (Unwin Hyman, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Getting Keynes Right
| 09 Sep 1990Keyne's Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation by Allan Meltzer (Cambridge university Press, 1988.)
