Policy Summer 1989
Vol. 5 No. 4 (Summer, 1989) POLICY Magazine Summer 1989 issue.-
FEATURE: Comparable Worth in New Zealand: A Blow Against Equity
| 12 Dec 1989Current proposals to introduce 'employment equity' focus exclusively on wage outcomes and ignore processes of wage determination. An argument that this approach threatens to reduce employment opportunitites for less skilled and less experienced workers.
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FEATURE: Why Worry About The Capital Account Surplus?
| 12 Dec 1989Official gloom about Australia's current account deficit can be dispelled by contemplating the benefits of the corresponding surplus on the capital account.
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FEATURE: Foreign Investment In Rural Australia: The Positive Side
| 12 Dec 1989A summary of the benefits of foreign investment and shows how it is enhancing Australia's rural export capacity.
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FEATURE: How To Privatise Natural Monopolies
| 12 Dec 1989Opponents of privitisation often point out that transferring monopolies intact from the public sector to the private sector does nothing to enhance efficiency. Even natural monopolies can be subjected to competitive pressures.
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FEATURE: Can The VFT Be Made To Work?
| 12 Dec 1989An assessment of the viability of the Very Fast Train project in the light of the VFT Concept Report of December 1988.
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FEATURE: Federalism and the Size of Australia's Public Sector
| 12 Dec 1989Federal political systems provide some scope for containing public sector size by encouraging subnational governments to compete for residents. An outline of the ways of stimulating more such competition in Australia.
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FEATURE: Populate or Languish? Selling the Right to Settle in New Zealand
| 12 Dec 1989In a recent study of New Zealand's immigration policy, Wolfgang Kasper proposed the sale of immigration rights are one way of ensuring that immigration contributes to sustained eocnomic progress in New Zealand.
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FEATURE: How the NSW Anti-Discrimination Laws Threaten Free Speech
| 12 Dec 1989How far should the law go in protecting social groups from public vilification? Tony Kastigiannis argues that the Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act (NSW) goes too far and suggests alternative responses to public expressions of racism.
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FEATURE: Is America Declining?
| 12 Dec 1989The idea that America is in a state of economic and military decline is just one of an endless succession of apocalyptic 'crises' conjured up by American intellectuals.
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REVIEW ARTICLE: The Economic of Status: Robert Frank's "Choosing The Right Pond"
| 12 Dec 1989How much welfare would we forgo to retain our social status? A great deal, according to Robert H. Frank, whose book Choosing The Right Pond: Human Behaviour and the Quest For Status (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1985). A review by Chandran Kukathas
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BOOK REVIEW: Concensus Rules OK
| 12 Dec 1989Making Economic Policy in Australia 1983-1988 by Michael Keating and Geoff Dixon (Longman Cheshire, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: An ABC of Trading Blocs
| 12 Dec 1989Unequal Trade: The Economics of Discriminatory International trade Practices by Richard Pomfret (Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Damages Unlimited
| 12 Dec 1989Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences by Peter W. Huber (Basic Books, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Record of Arms Control
| 12 Dec 1989Arms Control: Theory and Practice by Michael J. Sheehan (Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Redesigning Australian Federalism
| 12 Dec 1989Taxation and Fiscal Federalism: Essays in Honour of Russell Matthews, edited by G. Brennan, B. S. Grewal and P. Groenewegen (ANU Press, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: New Zealand After The ANZUS Split
| 12 Dec 1989The Armed Forces of New Zelanad and the ANZUS Split: Costs and Consequences by Peter Jennings (New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 1988.)
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: Do We Need The 'National Agenda For A Multicultural Australia'?
| 12 Dec 1989Comments on the 1989 "National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia."
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COMMENT: Economic Sanctions and Economic Theory
| 12 Dec 1989International economic sanction are often advocated as an effective, peaceful and swift means of achieving certain ends of foreign policy.
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COMMENT: Making Individuals Count
| 12 Dec 1989
An edited version of a speech given by Sir Ronald Trotter, Chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, at a meeting of the Wellington Regional Employers' Association on 6 July 1989.
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COMMENT: James M. Buchanan: Political Economist and Constitutionalist
| 12 Dec 1989The 1990 Bonython Lecture will be given in March by James M. Buchanan, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University and winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. Michael James has written this introduction to his economic and political philosophy.
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LETTERS: The Role of the State in the Open Society
| 12 Dec 1989Letters and correspondence for POLICY Magazine Summer 1989.
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RAFE'S ROUND- UP: Summer 1989
| 12 Dec 1989Rafe's Round-Up for POLICY Magazine Summer 1989 issue.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Promoting Professional Competition: Part One
| 12 Dec 1989
Ending The Legal Profession's Monopoly.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Promoting Professional Competition: Part Two
| 12 Dec 1989The EPAC Study of Professional Competition (April, 1989.)
