Policy Spring 1989
Vol. 5 No. 3 (Spring, 1989) POLICY Magazine Spring 1989 edition.-
FEATURE: Japanese Investment: Their Money, Our Terms
| 09 Sep 1989Rising levels of Japanese investment in Australian land and industry have generated fears that Australia is becoming a Japanese colony. An argument that enlightened policies would ensure that Australia enjoys the benefits of Japanese investment without compromising its political and cultural values.
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FEATURE: The Current Account Debate
| 09 Sep 1989
There is considerable debate about the significance and policy implications of Australia's current account deficit and foreign debt. Des Moore defends the use of both macro and micro policies to reduce the current account deficit, while John Pitchford, in a rejoinder, inisists that the current account is still not a sensible target of economic policy.
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FEATURE: High Interest Rates: Problems and Solutions
| 09 Sep 1989The Australian government justifies its tight monetary policy and the high interest rates that flow from it by the need to reduce the current account deficit. Terry Black argues that the policy is not only failing but is imposing serious distortions on the Australian economy.
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FEATURE: Improving Australia's Refugee Resettlement Policy
| 09 Sep 1989
Australia has a good record for accomodating and resettling refugees. The case for a self-determining system of refugee immigration or, failing that, improvements to the present quota-based system.
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FEATURE: Retirement Income Policies for a Dynamic Economy
| 09 Sep 1989Economic and demographic pressures are prompting governments to abandon their earlier commitments to the universal provision of retirement income. Roger Kerr outlines the principles that should guide future retirement income policy.
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FEATURE: How Government Purchasing and Offset Programs Distort the Economy
| 09 Sep 1989Purchasing preference and offset policies are little-known forms of industry protection, yet can be just as damaging as the more visible import barriers. Garry White shows how they distort the economy and retard its growth.
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FEATURE: Private Sector Funding of Tertiary Education in New Zealand
| 09 Sep 1989The New Zealand government has rejected the Hawke Report's proposal to increase private funding for post-compulsory education and training by means of a graduate tax. A defence of the graduate tax, arguing for its supreriority over the proposed loan assistance scheme.
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FEATURE: The Greenhouse Effect: Fact and Fiction
| 09 Sep 1989Dramatic articles and documentaries frequently warn of the dire consequences for mankind of the greenhouse effect if urgent action is not taken to counteract it.
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INTERVIEW: Michael Novak
| 09 Sep 1989Interview with Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Chair of Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the influential work, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Pros and Cons of Privatisation
| 09 Sep 1989
Privatisation: An Australian Perspective edited by Peter Abelson (Australian Professional Publications, 1987.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Thatcher Revolution
| 09 Sep 1989The Economy Under Mrs Thatcher by Geoffrey Maynard (Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Contracting-Out in the UK
| 09 Sep 1989
The Politics of Privitisation: Contracting Out Public Services by Kate Ascher (Macmillan Education Ltd, 1987.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Much Ado About Little: An Attempt To Restore Leviathan
| 09 Sep 1989Microeconomics and the Public Economy: A Defence of the Leviathan by John Cullis and Philip Jones (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.)
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COMMENT: Socialism Restructured
| 09 Sep 1989
A Culture of Power: Rethinking Labour Goals for the 1990s by John Mathew and A Politics of Poetry: Reconstituting Social Democracy by Dennis Altman (Both Pluto Press, 1988.)
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APPRECIATION: Peter Bauer: Economist and Scholar
| 09 Sep 1989An appreciation of Lord Bauer, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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RAFE'S ROUND-UP: Spring 1989
| 09 Sep 1989Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Spring 1989 issue.
