Welcome the Edupreneurs
Edupreneurial companies are presently experiencing substantial growth worldwide. A recent survey of edupreneurs estimated that they constitute approximately 10% of the US$740 billion education market in the US. It is difficult to see how there is anything inherently unethical about deriving a profit from K-12 education when we view teaching as a vocation comparable to the practise of medicine, law or accountancy. Ross Farrelly

The Scientist's Pursuit of Happiness
The most happy and satisfied places on earth are the ones that are most dynamic, individualist and wealthy: North America, Northern Europe and Australia. So why don’t we look there to find the secret of happiness?
Johan Norberg

Low Pay or No Pay? Economics of the Minimum Wage
The Government’s new Fair Pay Commission will be required to take account of the impacts of wage rises on employment and unemployment. The inclusion of the interests of the most disadvantaged (the unemployed) rather than simply the interests of the unions and employer groups, has the potential to be a major step forward.
Philip Lewis

Faith and Politics: Separation or Synergy?
Religious beliefs can guide politicians while preserving the separation of church and state
Darryn Jensen

Forced to be Free? Compelling Voluntary Student Unionism
In the tumultuous Hawke-Keating years, when old ideological landmarks were disappearing, anti-unionism was one of the Party’s few unifying tenets. The shortage of new ideas and policies meant that surviving ones from earlier times were clung to all the more firmly, among them VSU: it ceased to be a considered policy and became a shibboleth.
Charles Richardson

Science in the Service of the Nation State
Universities are the wrong place to look for sources of business innovation
Tom Quirk

Ross Parish Essay Competition
‘Is there a legitimate role for the government in shaping the values and attitudes of its citizens?’
essays by Gregory Roebuck and Phillip Elias

The Mystic Social Scientist
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough
by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss
reviewed by Andrew Norton

Abolishing the States: Craven's One Eyed View
John August responds

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Against the Flow: Reflections of an Individualist
by Samuel Brittan
Reviewed by Julie Novak

Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Human Rights
by Alan Dershowitz
Reviewed by John Heard

Freakonomics: A Rogue
Economist Explores the
Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner
Reviewed by Rajat Sood

On Bullshit
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Reviewed by Amalia Matheson

The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia
By Simon Guttman
Reviewed by Stephen Kirchner

Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference
By Alberto Alesina and
Edward Glaeser
Reviewed by Peter Saunders

Our Culture, What’s Left of It:
The Mandarins and the Masses
by Theodore Dalrymple
Reviewed by Alan Anderson