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Summer 2001-02 Contents
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Immigration Policy for an Age of Mass Movement Irwin M. Stelzer
The tools of economic analysis may help policymakers to meet the urgent need for a sensible and broadly accepted immigration policy that satisfies the self-interest of countries that are the targets of millions of immigrants.

Stelzer on Immigration: Some Lessons for Australia Jason Soon
Stelzer's case for an immigration policy based on 'national interest'—that is, one that increases the welfare of existing residentsis supported by Australian evidence on the generally positive contribution of migrants to the economy.

The Roots of Muslim Rage Bernard Lewis
Fundamentalist Islamic leaders are not mistaken in seeing Western civilisation and the twin enemies secularism and modernism as the greatest challenge to the way of life that they wich to retain or restore for their people.

This article was reproduced in Policy with the permission of The Atlantic Monthly. The electronic version is available from The Atlantic online at www.theatlantic.com/doc/199009/muslim-rage

 
  CIS at Twenty-Five: A Conversation Frank Devine talks to Greg Lindsay, founder of The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
 
 

Private Property without Rights Steven Kates
The Cold War is over and we are no longer in danger of wholesale socialism. But we still face the continual erosian of our liberties in a piecemeal fashion through ever-increasing government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy.

Economic Freedom Watch Wolfgang Kasper
Our civilisation cannot prosper without economic freedom and other liberties. Which is why Australians must remain vigilant in the face of petty and not-so-petty government interventions and regulations that degrade economic freedom.

What Value the Rural Environment? Jeff Bennett
Neither past nor current schemes for addressing environmental decline in rural regional Australia have been considered in light of the cost of their implementation relative to the benefits they are expected to generate.

 
  The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg, reviewed by Richard Stone
 
  The Well-being of Nations by Tom Healy and Sylvain Cote - reviewed by Andrew Norton
In Defence of Free Capital Markets: The Case Against a New International Financial Architecture by David F. DeRosa
The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse
by Michael Pettis - reviewed by Wolfgang Kasper
Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twenty-First Century by Joh J. Kirton, Joseph P. Daniels and Andreas Freytag (eds) - reviewed by Stephen Kirchner
The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air About Global Warming by Patrick J
. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr - reviewed by Sarah Tyrrell
 
 

Ross McDonald Parish- 24 December 1929 to 5 October 2001 Geoff Hogbin
The late CIS distinguished Fellow and former Research Director was a free thinking agricultural economist who helped make microeconomics respectable in Australia.


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