Policy Autumn 2009
Vol. 25 No. 1 (Autumn, 2009)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
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OPINION: Apocalypse Now
| 30 Mar 2009Market systems survive their inevitable crises.
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FEATURE: How Not to Solve a Crisis
| 03 Mar 2009
Mistakes by policymakers and regulators accelerated the financial crisis, argue Bill Stacey and Julian Morris.
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FEATURE: Fusion: The Party System We Had To Have?
| 03 Mar 2009
A hundred years ago, the fusion of the Protectionist and Free Trade parties created the party system that still dominates Australian politics, writes Charles Richardson.
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FEATURE: Blaming Greenspan: Monetary Policy, the Housing 'Bubble' and the Credit Crisis
| 03 Mar 2009Monetary policy alone cannot explain the US housing or financial crisis. In the context of globally integrated capital markets, long term interest rates are likely to reflect global influences as much as domestic policy.
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FEATURE: Rethinking Professional Regulation
| 03 Mar 2009
Competitive professional regulation would lead to lower costs for consumers.
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FEATURE: Medical Training: First Farce then Tragedy
| 03 Mar 2009We need to find a way to allow market signals, rather than central planning, to determine how many doctors we need.
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FEATURE: Classical Liberalism and International Relations
| 03 Mar 2009Classical liberal ideas apply between states as well as within states, explains Edwin van de Haar.
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FEATURE: Liberalism and Hate Laws: Toleration versus Tolerance
| 03 Mar 2009
Attempts to create interpersonal tolerance undermine state toleration, writes John Shellard.
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ROSS PARISH ESSAY: Liberty, Time Preference and Decadence
| 03 Mar 2009It is the welfare state—not liberty—that fosters decadence, says Ben O’Neill
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ROSS PARISH ESSAY: Does Liberty Lead to Decadence?
| 03 Mar 2009
The liberty to be decadent should be valued. The empowerment of the individual to make that choice, to be allowed to lead a decadent lifestyle, should be viewed as another valuable experiment in how to live best.
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BOOK REVIEW: Calculating Political Risk
| 03 Mar 2009Calculating Political Risk by Catherine Althaus (UNSW Press 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW:The Henson Case
| 03 Mar 2009
The Henson Case by David Marr (Text Publishing, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Why Not The Best Schools? What We Have Learned From Outstanding Schools Around The World
| 03 Mar 2009
Why Not The Best Schools? What We Have Learned From Outstanding Schools Around The World By Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Gridlock Economy
| 03 Mar 2009
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation and Costs Lives by Michael Heller (Basic Books, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
| 03 Mar 2009
Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple (Monday Books, 2009).
