Summer 1997-98
Contents

 
Summer 1997-98 Contents
 
 

The New Wealth of Nations Christopher DeMuth
The nations of North America, Western Europe, Australia, and Japan are wealthier today than they have ever been, wealthier than any others on the planet, wealthier by far than any societies in human history.

The New Wealth of Nations: Australian Postscript  Charles Richardson

Industrial Policy for Australia
Helen Hughes
'Industry policy' has been a central feature of economic debates since WWII. Initially, only liberal, market oriented economists argued that introducing economy wide policies was essential and sufficient for the development of industry and the economy as a whole.

The New Populism in Australia Gregory Melleuish
Since the 1970s Australians have been living through an age of uncertainty or, perhaps more positively, an age of redefinition.

Postal Services: Public or Private? Competition or Monopoly? Terry Black and Susan Black
The National Competition Council (NCC) has recently undertaken a review into the performace of Australia Post, specifically concentrating on the possible effects of introducing competition.

 
  Looking for Results Thomas Hazlett speaks to Ronald Coase, Nobel Prize winner for economics in 1991.  
 
 

Does Australia Really Need to Encourage its Innovators to Commercialise In-House? Joshua Gans
The path to maximising the returns from innovative activity lies not in commercialising and manufacturing innovations in-house but in exploring cooperative arrangements with overseas companies.

Compulsory Voting: The Australian Anachronism Ian Farrow
In almost every other democracy, the trend has moved away from compulsion and compulsory voting is amost unique to Australia.

 
 

The Victory by Pamela Williams - reviewed by Jason Falinski and Paul Martyn
Economics and the Environment by Ian Wills - reviewed by John Rolfe

 
  John Graham Logan (1940-1998) by Greg Lindsay
 
  Past Wrongs, Future Rights by Michael Warby - reviewed by Alastair Pope
Keeping the Bastards Honest by John Warhurst - reviewed by Tony Dimmitt
Not Just for the Money by Bruno Frey
- reviewed by Andrew Norton
Private Prisons and Public Accountability
by Richard Harding - reviewed by Andrew Wade
 
  International Trade Sandy Cuthbertson and Leon Berkelmans
Why has international trade endured and, if it is as good as all that, why do some groups oppose it so vehemently?
 
 
 

By Rafe Champion


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