Policy Spring 2008
Vol. 24 No. 3 (Spring, 2008)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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OPINION: An Alternative Vision of Parental Leave
| 15 Sep 2008Instead of requiring more taxpayer spending, parental leave could be self-funded.
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OPINION: The Myth of OPEC
| 15 Sep 2008OPEC has little to do with high oil prices. OPEC is a largely powerless organisation that sustains its own existence with a myth that governments in the West are complicit in spreading.
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FEATURE: Policy on Trial
| 15 Sep 2008Randomised trials are the best tool we have for finding out if policies really work.
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FEATURE: Once More Around the Block
| 15 Sep 2008History demonstrates that propping up the local car industry is a trimph of hope over experience.
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FEATURE: Preferential Trade Agreements: Is there a next step?
| 15 Sep 2008Preferential trade agreements can divert trade to less efficient producers.
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FEATURE: A High-Tax Future for Gen X and Y? Medicare and the intergenerational crisis
| 15 Sep 2008Younger generations will have to pay a high price for baby boomers' health care, but private health savings systems could give them a greater ability to cover their own needs.
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FEATURE: The Politics of Protection: America and Australia compared
| 24 Mar 2008Despite similar public scepticism about free trade in the US and Australia, protectionism is on the rise in Washington but not in Canberra.
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FEATURE: Common Sense: The Past and Future of the Debate Between Libertarians and Conservatives
| 15 Sep 2008Fusing conservatism and libertarianism continues to work- so ignore any theoretical difficulties.
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FEATURE: The Trouble With Religious Hatred Laws
| 15 Sep 2008Religions and their followers should receive no special protection from spoken hostility.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The New Hysteria
| 15 Sep 2008We can't blame the demise of Enlightenment thinking on diet doctors and Islamists alone.
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REVIEW ESSAY: Popper's Critique of 'Free-Market Ideology'
| 15 Sep 2008Popper's views on the role of government in a free society do not always fit easily within the classical liberal tradition.
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BOOK REVIEW: Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
| 15 Sep 2008Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade by Bill Emmott (Allen Lane, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Gross National Happiness
| 15 Sep 2008Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America- And How We Can Get More of It by Arthur C. Brooks (Basic Books, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Sex, Science and Profits: How People Evolved to Make Money
| 15 Sep 2008
Sex, Science and Profits: How People Evolved to Make Money by Terence Kealey (William Heinemann, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
| 15 Sep 2008The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics edited by David R. Henderson (Liberty Fund, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: Liberal Facism: The secret history of the American Left
| 15 Sep 2008Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left by Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Happiness: A Revolution in Economics
| 15 Sep 2008Happiness: A Revolution in Economics by Bruno S. Frey (The MIT Press, 2008).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
| 15 Sep 2008The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2007).
