Publications by Author

1. BOOK REVIEW: The Free Market Innovation Machine

   Wolfgang Kasper | 22 Mar 2010 | POLICY Magazine

   The Free Market Innovation Machine by William Baumol(Princeton University Press, 2002.)

2. Radical Surgery: The Only Cure for New South Wales Hospitals

   Wolfgang Kasper | 27 Jan 2009 | Policy Monographs

   Wolfgang Kasper argues that the hospital malaise can only be remedied by removing the central, bureaucratic control of hospitals... Read More...

3. REVIEW ESSAY: The Culture of Prosperity

   Wolfgang Kasper | 04 Jun 2008 | POLICY Magazine

   Gregory Clark's book shows how important attitudes are to economic growth.

4. REVIEW ESSAY: Law Without Government

   Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 2006 | POLICY Magazine

   The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development by Michael van Notten, edited by Spencer Heath MacCallum... Read More...

5. LETTER TO THE EDITOR

   Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 2006 | POLICY Magazine

   A letter to the magazine in response to Dr Robertson's article on the Doha Round (Policy 22:2 (Autumn 2006)).

6. REVIEW ESSAY: Mao- The Abhorrent Tyrant and How His Economic Legacy Has Been Overcome

   Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2006 | POLICY Magazine

   Mao, The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Jonathan Cape, 2005).

7. Make Poverty History: Tackle Corruption

   Wolfgang Kasper | 19 Jan 2006 | Issue Analysis

   The results of the latest international survey of corruption reveal huge international differences. Poor countries tend to... Read More...

8. REVIEW ESSAY: In Pursuit of Truth and Beauty

   Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2005 | POLICY Magazine

   Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray (Harper Collins... Read More...

9. REVIEW ESSAYS: Justice and Liberty

   Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2004 | POLICY Magazine

   Justice and Its Surroundings by Anthony de Jasay (Liberty Fund, 2002).

10. In Defence of Secure Property Rights, 2nd revised edition

    Wolfgang Kasper | 19 Oct 2004 | Occasional Papers

    Secure private property rights are vital to the development of a growing, healthy Australian economy. Property rights allow... Read More...

11. A Voluntary Free Trade Alliance: How to Overcome Hurdles in the Path of Traders and Investors

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 2004 | Issue Analysis

    The 'Global Free Trade Alliance' would promote free exchanges between nations on a voluntary basis and could become a ‘World... Read More...

12. REVIEW ESSAY: The Private Provision of All Security

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2004 | POLICY Magazine

    One Liberal Mile Too Far The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production Edited by... Read More...

13. BOOK REVIEW: The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analysing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism by William J. Baumol (Princeton University... Read More...

14. In Defence of Secure Property Rights

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Jun 2003 | Occasional Papers

    Secure private property rights are vital to the development of a growing, healthy Australian economy. Property rights allow... Read More...

15. BOOK REVIEW: Recreating Asia: Visions For a New Century

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2003 | POLICY Magazine

    Recreating Asia: Visions for a New Century: by Frank-Jurgen Richter and Pamela C.M. Mar (John Wiley, 2002).

16. FEATURE: Green Protectionism

    Denis Dutton, Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    Behind the strident campaigns of Kyoto Protocol promoters and global warming activists lies blatant self-interest in justifying... Read More...

17. INTERVIEW: Economic Freedom

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    The 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots.' Four leading liberal thinkers discuss the problems of development in the third world, the... Read More...

18. Sustainable Immigration and Cultural Integration

    Wolfgang Kasper | 15 Aug 2002 | Policy Monographs

    Professor Kasper outlines the benefits of past migration. He points out that Australians can be justifiably proud of the... Read More...

19. BOOK REVIEW: In Defence of Global Capitalism

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    In Defence of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg (Stockholm: Timbro, 2001.)

20. SCHOOLS BRIEF: Job destruction and job creation

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    "A beginners guide." Contrary to much political rhetoric, it is private enterprise that creates jobs, not governments, whose... Read More...

21. SCHOOLS' BRIEF: Economic Freedom in Australia

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2002 | POLICY Magazine

    As economic freedom in the world improves, reform of Australia's two 'sacred cows', industrial relations and big government,... Read More...

22. FEATURE: Economic Freedom Watch

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    Our civilisation cannot prosper without economic freedom and other liberties. Which is why Australians must remain vigilant... Read More...

23. BOOK REVIEW: In Defence of Free Capital Markets

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The case against a new international financial architecture by David F. DeRosa (Bloomberg... Read More...

24. BOOK REVIEW: The Volatility Machine

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse by Michael Pettis (Oxford University Press,... Read More...

25. REVIEW ARTICLE: Economic Literacy in One Mighty Lesson

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 2000.) In the non-technical introduction... Read More...

26. BOOK REVIEW: Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot by Plinio Apuleyo Carlos, Alberto Montaner and Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Introduction... Read More...

27. Towards Racial Harmony: A New Constitution for Fiji

    Wolfgang Kasper | 05 Mar 2001 | Issue Analysis

    A new constitution that decentralises collective political power is the best way to achieve stability in Fiji by empowering Fijians... Read More...

28. FEATURE: Learning Racial Harmony: Fiji Needs New Constitutional Rules

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2001 | POLICY Magazine

    The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable... Read More...

29. Breaking the Trade Stalemate: What Are Australia’s Options?

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Feb 2001 | Issue Analysis

    Australia’s best hope of long-term trade liberalisation lies in signing a free trade agreement with the United States.... Read More...

30. COMMENT: Weatherproofing Our Prosperity

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    With its half-reformed policy framework, Australia is ill-prepared for a possible slowdown in global economic growth.

31. INTERVIEW: The Art of the Economy

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    Stability, growth and philosophy: Wolfgang Kasper talks to Heinz W. Arndt.

32. COMMENT: The Gang of Three: Mao, Jesus and Hayek

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    The transformation of China is real, not because the leaders in Bejing want such change, but because their openings to trade... Read More...

33. Gambles with the Economic Constitution: The Reregulation of Labour in New Zealand

    Wolfgang Kasper | 29 Aug 2000 | Policy Monographs

    The proposed Employment Relations Bill will prove costly for New Zealand citizens and workers. This report, says the proposed... Read More...

34. FEATURE: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    The re-regulation of labour by New Zealand's minority government not only reflects what Australia's Labor opposition is contemplating,... Read More...

35. REVIEW: Are Industry Innovations Discovered In Summits Or In Valleys?

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 2000 | POLICY Magazine

    Encouraging Knowledge-Intensive Industries: What Australia Can Draw From the Industrial Upgrading Experiences of Taiwan and... Read More...

36. Building Prosperity: Australia's Future as a Global Player

    Wolfgang Kasper | 02 Mar 2000 | Special Publications

    Over the past two decades Australia has been transformed from a protected backwater on the global periphery to an outward-looking... Read More...

37. COMMENT: A Recovery Plan for East Timor

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 1999 | POLICY Magazine

    There can be little doubt that Australia, bar its military initiative, has assumed a measure of at least temporary co-responsibility... Read More...

38. FEATURE: No Third Way: Hayek and the Recovery of Freedom

    Samuel Gregg, Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1999 | POLICY Magazine

    It is no exaggeration to say that the ideas and work of Professor Friedrich August von Hayek have been fundamental to what... Read More...

39. COMMENT:Il Ridistributore: Machiavelli for Parliamentarians in Welfare Democracies

    Gerard Radnitzky, Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1999 | POLICY Magazine

    Gerard Radnitzky suggests that the welfare state destroys freedom and the democratic order in countries such as Australia,... Read More...

40. BOOK REVIEW: Political Competition, Innovation and Growth- A Historical Analysis

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 1999 | POLICY Magazine

    Political Competition, Innovation and Growth- A Historical Analysis by P. Bernholz, M.E. Streit and R. Vaubel (eds.) (Springer,... Read More...

41. CORRESPONDENCE: Fred Argy and Wolfgang Kasper

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 1998 | POLICY Magazine

    Correspondence between Fred Argy and Wolfgang Kasper.

42. REVIEW ARTICLE: Australia at a Crossroads?

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1998 | POLICY Magazine

    Australia at the Crossroads by Fred Argy (Allen & Unwin, 1998.)

43. FEATURE: The Open Economy and the National Interest

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1998 | POLICY Magazine

    The Tug of War over the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.

44. Open for Business? Australian Interests and the OECD's Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)

    Wolfgang Kasper | 17 Apr 1998 | Issue Analysis

    The proposed OECD’s Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), which the Australian government has been helping to negotiate,... Read More...

45. Property Rights and Competition: An Essay on the Constitution of Liberty

    Wolfgang Kasper | 04 Apr 1998 | Policy Monographs

46. BOOK REVIEW: Libertarians and Liberalism: Essays in Honour of Gerard Radnitzky

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 1996 | POLICY Magazine

    Libertarians and Liberalism: Essays in Honour of Gerard Radnitzky by H. Bouillon (Avebury-Ashgate Publishing, 1996.)

47. FEATURE: Responsibility and Reform: A Conversation With Ruth Richardson

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1996 | POLICY Magazine

    An interview with Ruth Richardson, the first Finance Minister in Jim Bloger's National Party Government in New Zealand.

48. BOOK REVIEW: Values and the Social Order, Volume 2: Society and Order

    Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 1996 | POLICY Magazine

    Values and the Social Order, Volume 2: Society and Order edited by Gerard Radnitzky and Hard Bouillon (Avebury Publications,... Read More...

49. FEATURE: On The Road To Full Employment

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 1995 | POLICY Magazine

    The success of the New Zealand Employment Contracts Act.

50. BOOK REVIEW: Values and Social Order, Volume I: Values and Society

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1995 | POLICY Magazine

    BOOK REVIEW: Values and Social Order, Volume I: Values and Society edited by Gerard Radnitzky and Hardy Bouillon (Avebury... Read More...

51. FEATURE: High On the Reform Agenda: Competitive Federalism

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1994 | POLICY Magazine

    The economic imperatives to reform federal-state relations.

52. Lessons from the Freiburg School: The Institutional Foundations of Freedom and Prosperity

    Wolfgang Kasper | 01 Jul 1993 | Occasional Papers

    West Germany’s post-War economic success was based on the ideas of the ‘Freiburg school,’ a school of liberal economists,... Read More...

53. FEATURE: A Future for Economic Rationalism

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1993 | POLICY Magazine

    Economic rationalism owes much to new insights in technical and organisational evolution, industrial history, the new institutional... Read More...

54. INTERVIEW: The Liberal Utopia

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1993 | POLICY Magazine

    An interview with Mario Vargads Llosa.

55. BOOK REVIEW: Lessons of Confucius

    Wolfgang Kasper | 06 Jun 1992 | POLICY Magazine

    Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialisation by Robert Wade (Princeton... Read More...

56. NOTES AND COMMENTS: The Blessing of Market Capitalism

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1991 | POLICY Magazine

    In Centesimus annus, the Pope is unsparing in his criticism of communism, socialism and (less explicitly) the Catholic flirtation... Read More...

57. LETTERS: Wolfgang Kasper Vs Tony Makin On Foreign Debt

    Tony Makin, Wolfgang Kasper | 03 Mar 1990 | POLICY Magazine

    Does Foreign Debt matter?

58. FEATURE: Populate or Languish? Selling the Right to Settle in New Zealand

    Wolfgang Kasper | 12 Dec 1989 | POLICY Magazine

    In a recent study of New Zealand's immigration policy, Wolfgang Kasper proposed the sale of immigration rights are one way... Read More...

59. FEATURE: Japanese Investment: Their Money, Our Terms

    Wolfgang Kasper | 09 Sep 1989 | POLICY Magazine

    Rising levels of Japanese investment in Australian land and industry have generated fears that Australia is becoming a Japanese... Read More...

60. Fiji: Opportunity from Adversity?

    Wolfgang Kasper | 04 Feb 1988 | Special Publications

    The situation in Fiji has deteriorated to the point where new constitutional ground rules seem the only way to overcome irreconcilable... Read More...

61. Capital Xenophobia: Australia's Controls of Foreign Investment

    Wolfgang Kasper | 18 Dec 1984 | Policy Monographs

    An early study by the CIS which supported the lifting of controls on  foreign investment in Australia.