Policy Summer 2007
Vol. 23 No. 4 (Summer, 2007)Subscriptions are available for print and online editions. 
Past issues of Policy are available online free of charge.
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FEATURE: Why Capitalism is Good for the Soul
| 12 Dec 2007Capitalism provides the conditions for creating worthwhile lives.
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FEATURE: Fashionomics
| 12 Dec 2007
Fashion should be taken seriously. Fashion may function as a mechanism that periodically and speculatively liquidates some elements of a consumer's lifestyle.
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FEATURE: Saving For Not-So-Rainy Days
| 12 Dec 2007Market pricing, not water restrictions, is the best way of dealing with shortages.
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FEATURE: The End of Industrial Relations Reform
| 12 Dec 2007WorkChoices polling revealed the political dangers of industrial relations reform.
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FEATURE: The Real Body Shop, Part 1: Blood and Corpses
| 12 Dec 2007We should consider allowing the sale of blood and body parts.
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FEATURE: Explaining the Income Gap: Are Aussies and Kiwis that different?
| 12 Dec 2007New Zealand is Australia's poor cousin. Is the Kiwis' national culture holding them back?
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FEATURE: How Do Australian Classical Liberals Vote?
| 12 Dec 2007Though rare, classical liberal voters can affect major party support.
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FEATURE: Ross Parish Essay Competition
| 12 Dec 2007Have two hundred years of liberal capitalism made us any happier?
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ROSS PARISH ESSAY COMPETITION: An Inquiry Into The Nature and Causes of the Happiness of Nations
| 12 Dec 2007People's actions tell us what makes them happy.
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REVIEW ESSAY: The Poverty of Nations
| 12 Dec 2007Lousy government is the root cause of the world's worst poverty.
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FEATURE: The Pop Economics of Everyday Life
| 12 Dec 2007Applying economic thinking to everyday life can look alot like (un)common sense.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
| 12 Dec 2007The Shock of The Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton (Oxford University Press, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and the Imagined Public
| 12 Dec 2007Divided Nation? Indigenous Affairs and The Imagined Public by Kirsten Storry (Melbourne University Press, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters
| 12 Dec 2007The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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BOOK REVIEW: Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Public Life
| 23 Apr 2007Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumph of The Economist In Australian Public Life by William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger.
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BOOK REVIEW: Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy
| 12 Dec 2007Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy by Daniel Cross (HarperCollins, 2007).
