Policy Summer 1990
Vol. 6 No. 4 (Summer, 1990) POLICY Magazine Issue Summer 1990.-
FEATURE: Strategic Trade Policies: Respectable Interventionism
| 12 Dec 1990Even as Australia's tariff barriers are falling, new arguments against free trade are being advanced, based on 'strategic trade theory.' Winton Bates examines the practical problems associated with applying the theory and concludes that governments should continue to promote free trade.
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FEATURE: Product Liability: An American Evolution without a Stable Political Solution
| 12 Dec 1990Tracing the evolution of product liability law in the United States and comments on the proposed changes to product liability law in Australia.
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FEATURE: Uncertainty and Judicial Discretion in Commercial Law
| 12 Dec 1990The general law of contract and of tort has been transformed from a body of intelligible and specific rules into a system of unpredictable judicial discretions. A description of this legal development and comments on its origins and implications.
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FEATURE: New Zealand's Economy: Obstacles to Progress
| 12 Dec 1990Edited version of a speech given by Alan Gibbs, Chairman of Freightway Holdings Limited, at the 1990 National Business Economics conference, Dunedin, 4 May 1990.
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FEATURE: Immigration, Quota Auctions and the Labour Market: A Response to Leo Dobbes
| 12 Dec 1990
In the Winter 1989 issue of POLICY, Mark Harrison argued that Australia's immigration quota should be auctioned to the highest bidders. Here he responds to criticisms of the proposal but forward by Leo Dobbes in his article 'Australia's Economic and Social Immigration Policies: A Labour Market Perspective' (POLICY Spring 1990) and proffers his own criticisms of Dr Dobe's labour market adjustment approach to economic immigration.
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FEATURE:Rejoinder to Mark Harrison
| 12 Dec 1990Rejoinder to Mark Harrison's article, Immigration, Quota Auctions and the Labour Market: A Response to Leo Dobes.
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FEATURE: The Dulies Toll Road Extension: Reviving America's Private Turnpikes
| 12 Dec 1990Several American States are considering projects for privately-owned toll roads. Peter Samuel has written this assessment of the first such project likely to be completed, based on an interview with Ralph Stanley, founder of the Toll Road Corporation of Virginia.
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FEATURE: A Residual Welfare State? Robert Goodin's 'Reason For Welfare'
| 12 Dec 1990
A formidable case for a 'residual' welfare state has been made by Robert Goodin in Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 1988.) Here his arguments are assessed by Michael James, editor of Policy.
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FEATURE: Australia's Upper Houses and their Role in Responsible Government
| 12 Dec 1990Concern over the recent conduct of some State Governments in Australia has reawakened interest in how State upper houses should use their powers. Suri Ratnaspala argues that upper houses could strengthen responsible government by asserting (within limits) their powers to reject financial and other bills.
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BOOK REVIEW: What Government Shouldn't Do
| 12 Dec 1990
What Should Government Do? edited by Peter Coaldrake and J. R. Nethercote (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: ...And What It Should
| 12 Dec 1990
Limited Government: A Positive Agenda by John Gray (Institute of Economic Affairs, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Uniting Markets and Morals
| 12 Dec 1990Free Persons and the Common Good by Michael Novak (Madison Books, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Urban Planning and Conflict Mediation
| 12 Dec 1990Land Use Planning and the Mediation of Urban Change: the British Planning System in Practice by Patsy Healey, Paul McNamara, Martin Elson and Andrew Doak (Cambridge University Press, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Public Choice and Public Interest
| 12 Dec 1990Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Gordon Tullock (Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Australian Literature in the Cold War
| 12 Dec 1990
A Question of Commitment: Australian Literature in the Twenty Years after the War by Susan McKernan (Allen & Unwin, 1989).
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FEATURE: Abraham's Other Children
| 12 Dec 1990Islam is held by some to constitute a threat to the West similar to that once posed by the now-defunct communist movement. Douglas Streusand argues that whereas insurgent fundamentalism is a threat, Islam is a complex and diverse religion containing traditions that are compatible with Western interests and values.
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FEATURE: Argentina, Consensus and Equity: A Response to John Fogarty
| 12 Dec 1990Islam is held by some to constitute a threat to the West similar to that once posed by the now-defunct communist movement. Douglas Streusand argues that whereas insurgent fundamentalism is a threat, Islam is a complex and diverse religion containing traditions that are compataible with Western interests and values.
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FEATURE: Argentina, Consensus and Equity: A Response to John Fogarty
| 12 Dec 1990
In his article, 'Can Australia Still Learn From Argentina?' (POLICY Spring 1990.) John Forgarty compared the impediments to economic reform in Australia with those that hve condemned Argentina to 'banana republic' status. This article stresses political difference between the two countries that have so far enabled Australia to avoid the social conflict at the heart of Argentina's malaise.
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FEATURE: Disobeying: How Argentines Defeated Statism
| 12 Dec 1990Argentina started its decline by violating individual property rights that were clearly established in its 1853 constitution.
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FEATURE: Rejoinder to James Levy
| 12 Dec 1990John Fogarty's rejoinder to James Levy's article.
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FEATURE: CIS Publications Update
| 12 Dec 1990CIS Publications Update for POLICY Summer 1990.
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LETTERS: Summer 1990
| 12 Dec 1990Letters and correspondence for POLICY Magazine.
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RAFE'S ROUND UP: Summer 1990
| 12 Dec 1990Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Summer 1990.
