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Getting Past the Cost: Making University Education Accessible to All Andrew Norton
Contrary to popular belief, deregulation of higher education would improve not reduce access to a university education for those from low-income backgrounds.

An ANZAC Dollar: Does it Make Sense? Arthur Grimes
Small countries like Australia and New Zealand are finding money management increasingly difficult in the face of strong---and sometimes apparently irrational---international capital flows. Maybe they should join forces to create a single currency.

United We Stand? The Pros and Cons of Currency Union Don Brash
The volatility and plummeting value of both the Australian and New Zealand dollars has renewed interest in the idea of a joint currency. Most of the costs and benefits fall on New Zealand as the smaller country in such a union.

Setting the Record Straight: Free Trade, NGOs and the WTO David Robertson
The anti-globalisation coalition conceals some very powerful entrenched interest groups opposed to trade liberalisation. Multilateral trade rules are still important, but the new political forces in play are dangerous.
 
  The Art of the Economy: Stability, Growth and Philosophy Wolfgang Kasper talks to Heinz W. Ardnt, internationally renowned economist and writer.  
 
 

Why Cultures Succeed or Fail: Communal Order versus Market Prosperity Roger Sandall
Not all cultures are equal. Like it or not, some cultures are better able to provide law, security, order, prosperity, freedom and institutional pluralism that people in the year 2000 expect.

The Gang of Three: Mao, Jesus and Hayek William McGurn
The transformation of China is real, not because the leaders in Beijing want such change but because their openings to trade and investment have led to cracks in the system which the Chinese people are quick to exploit.

Renewing the Social Fabric: Mutual Obligation and Work for the Dole Tony Abbott
Nearly everything the Coalition Government does is challenged on the suspicion that it is trying to reduce spending in order to give tax cuts to the rich. This is a travesty of its objectives and motives for which it is partly to blame.

Civil Society: Are Citizens the Servants of the Masters of Government? Hardy Bouillon
When politicians extol the virtues of civil society, they are often asking citizens to conbribute to collective goals. This has nothing to do with the original concept of civil society, in which individuals freely pursue their own private interests.

 
 

A Darwinian Left? by Peter Singer reviewed by Eric Jones
Rethinking Australia's Defence Defence Review 2000-Our Future Defence Force reviewed by Susan Windybank

 
 
Capitalism, Democracy and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery by John Mueller - reviewed by Andrew Norton
Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller - reviewed by Stephen Kirchner
The Unemployment Crisis in Australia by Stephen Bell - reviewed by Sean Kennedy
Law's Order by David Friedman - reviewed by Nathan Strong
Behavioural Law and Economics by Cass R. Sunstein (ed.) - reviewed by Michael Rush
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton - reviewed by Sam Roggeveen
 
  Inequality of Wealth and Incomes Ludwig Von Mises
The mantra that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer misses the point—inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy.

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