Autumn 2008 contents
(full article available on active links)

 
opinion
 

NZ Government Gags Critics
David Farrar

The Chilling Effect of Political Expenditure Laws
Andrew Norton


  features
 

Six Social Policy Myths
Jennifer Buckingham, Andrew Norton, Phil Rennie, Jeremy Sammut, and Peter Saunders

A ‘New Era’ for the Reserve Bank?
Stephen Kirchner

The Real Body Shop, Part 2: Spare Parts
Jeremy Shearmur

Fixing Australian Federalism
Robert Carling

Deal or No Deal
Clarissa Keil

Suffer the Intellectuals
Owen Harries


  review
 

Control without Command
The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition
By Julian Le Grand
Reviewed by Gary Sturgess

The Predictive Power of Statistics
Super Crunching: How Anything Can Be Predicted
By Ian Ayres
Reviewed by Ross Farrelly

  book_review
 

The Liberals: The NSW Division 1945–2000
By Ian Hancock
Reviewed by Wayne Errington

School Choice: The Findings
By Herbert J. Walberg
Reviewed by James Paterson

Australian Social Attitudes 2: Citizenship, Work and Aspirations
Edited by David Denemark, Gabrielle Meagher, Shaun Wilson, Mark Western,
and Timothy Phillips
Reviewed by Richard Grant

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan
Reviewed by Stephen Kirchner

Full Disclosure: The Promise and Perils of Transparency
By Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil
Reviewed by Nicholas Gruen

Confucian Political Ethics
Edited by Daniel A. Bell
Reviewed by Georgina Tait

 


 
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