Michael James
Publications by Author
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NOTES AND COMMENTS: The Decades of Keynes
| 09 Sep 1993 | POLICY MagazineThe 1980s had barely come to an end when the mythology of that decade became established.
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NOTES & COMMENTS: Lessons of the "Fightback!" Strategy
| 06 Jun 1993 | POLICY MagazineAlthough, the Liberal-National Coalition's Fightback! strategy in the March 1993 Australian general election was a failure,... Read More...
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BOOK REVIEW: Reviving the Vigorous Virtues
| 03 Mar 1993 | POLICY MagazineThe Anatomy of Thatcherism by Shirley Robin Letwin (Fontana, 1992.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Agreement Is Everything
| 12 Dec 1992 | POLICY MagazineThe Political Economy of James Buchanan by David Reisman (Macmillan, 1990.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Low-Level Caricature
| 09 Sep 1992 | POLICY MagazineThe Trouble With Economic Rationalism edited by Donald Horne (Scribe Publications, 1992.)
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From Welfare State to Welfare Society
| 01 Jul 1992 | Occasional PapersThe legitimacy of the welfare state has survived the shift in recent years towards smaller government and a greater role... Read More...
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REVIEW: Secret Ballot, Secret Malice
| 03 Mar 1992 | POLICY MagazinePolitics and Process: New Essays in Democratic Thought edited by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren E. Lomasky (Cambridge University... Read More...
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BOOK REVIEW: New Ideas for Old
| 12 Dec 1991 | POLICY MagazineThe Spread of Economic Ideas edited by David Colander and A. W. Coats (Cambridge University Press, 1989.)
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FEATURE: Economic Rationalism and the Liberal Tradition
| 09 Sep 1991 | POLICY MagazineAlthough the present consensus favouring economic rationalism is surviving the recession, the seeds of a possible change... Read More...
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Liberating Labour: The Case for Freedom of Contract in Labour Relations
| 05 Aug 1991 | Occasional PapersThe legitimacy of the welfare state has survived the shift in recent years towards smaller government and a greater role... Read More...
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FEATURE: A Residual Welfare State? Robert Goodin's 'Reason For Welfare'
| 12 Dec 1990 | POLICY MagazineA formidable case for a 'residual' welfare state has been made by Robert Goodin in Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory... Read More...
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BOOK REVIEW: What Government Shouldn't Do
| 12 Dec 1990 | POLICY MagazineWhat Should Government Do? edited by Peter Coaldrake and J. R. Nethercote (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1989.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Public Choice and Public Interest
| 12 Dec 1990 | POLICY MagazineWealth, Poverty and Politics by Gordon Tullock (Basil Blackwell, 1988.)
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BOOK REVIEW: Concensus Rules OK
| 12 Dec 1989 | POLICY MagazineMaking Economic Policy in Australia 1983-1988 by Michael Keating and Geoff Dixon (Longman Cheshire, 1989.)
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COMMENT: James M. Buchanan: Political Economist and Constitutionalist
| 12 Dec 1989 | POLICY MagazineThe 1990 Bonython Lecture will be given in March by James M. Buchanan, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Study of... Read More...
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Regulating for Competition? Trade Practices Policy in a Changing Economy
| 01 Dec 1989 | Policy ForumArguments for a greater reliance on market forces to protect consumer welfare are explored in this collection by leading... Read More...
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INTERVIEW: Michael Novak
| 09 Sep 1989 | POLICY MagazineInterview with Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Chair of Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute... Read More...
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COMMENT: Socialism Restructured
| 09 Sep 1989 | POLICY MagazineA Culture of Power: Rethinking Labour Goals for the 1990s by John Mathew and A Politics of Poetry: Reconstituting Social... Read More...
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BOOK REVIEW: No Sympathy for the Welfare State
| 06 Jun 1989 | POLICY MagazineNot Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State by Robert E. Goodin and Julian Le Grand (Allen & Unwin, 1987.)
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BOOK REVIEW: The Debt Threat
| 03 Mar 1989 | POLICY MagazineThe Debt Threat by Tim Congdon (Blackwell Publications, 1989.)
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The Welfare State: Foundations and Alternatives
| 01 Mar 1989 | Policy ForumThe central question for public policy in the 1990s is whether the state should retain its near-monopoly of welfare provision... Read More...
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Restraining Leviathan: Small Government in Practice
| 01 Oct 1987 | Policy ForumThis collection seeks to increase our understanding of the scope and opportunities we have for making substantial and permenent... Read More...
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How Much Government
| 16 Aug 1986 | Policy MonographsWhy does government continue to grow despite the declared wishes of politicians of all parties?
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The Constitutional Challenge
| 01 Jul 1982 | CIS ReadingsEssays on the Australian Constitution, constitutionalism and parliamentary practice. G.S. Reid, James S. Buchanan, Anthony... Read More...
