Does Prison Work? Peter Saunders & Nicole Billante
During the 1990s, the United States experienced a significant drop in the incidence of most categories of crime, while in Australia serious crime rates went up. A key difference appears to be that in the US more offenders ended up in prison.

Towards a Global Tax Cartel? David R. Burton
The OECD is using the post-September 11 political climate to browbeat so-called tax havens into dismantling legal and constitutional safeguards protecting financial privacy so that high-taxing EU governments can get the information they need to tax (again) income saved or invested in offshore jurisdictions.

The New Fiscal Imperialism Terry Dwyer
In an effort to raise more revenue to fund their ageing welfare states, OECD governments are trying to turn low-tax jurisdictions into fiscal colonies by forcing them to ïharmoniseÍ their legal and administrative systems so as to collect more income tax for EU countries.

Environmental Trade Sanctions: What is at Stake Alan Oxley
In trying to enshrine new WTO rules justifying punitive trade sanctions on environmental grounds, the European Union is seeking to protect its farmers, thus denying developing countries the full benefits, through market access, of an open world trading system.

Green Protectionism Denis Dutton & Wolfgang Kasper
Behind the strident campaigns of Kyoto Protocol promoters and global warming activists lies blatant self-interest in justifying a new form of protectionism that would protect the EUÍs ageing industrial base while shackling competition from other countries.

The Crisis Within Islam Richard W. Bulliet
The real ïclash of civilisationsÍ is not a confrontation between the West and Islam but an intra-civilisational battle between different versions of Islam, pointing to a crisis of authority over what Islam really stands for that must be resolved.

Knowledge, Demagoguery and Democracy: A Hayekian Perspective Alex Robson
What exactly did Hayek mean when he wrote that a parochial belief in democracy independent of the values that it promotes can be as devastating as a belief in the ïcommon goodÍ or the ïgeneral welfareÍ?

The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne - reviewed by Gregory Melleuish
The Voluntary City by David T. Beito, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok - reviewed by Jeremy Shearmur
Does Education Matter by Alison Wolf- reviewed by Andrew Norton
The Global Market for Higher Education by Tim Mazzarol and Geoffrey Norman Soutar - reviewed by Christopher Pokarier
Can Japan Compete by Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara - reviewed by Helen Hughes
Happiness and Hardship by Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato - reviewed by Richard Tooth
The Prince's New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike their Politicians? by David Burchill and Andrew Leigh - reviewed by Chris Leithner