Winter 2008 contents
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opinion
 

A ‘Fair Go’ in Schools
Kevin Donnelly

The OECD Cringe
Andrew Norton


  features
 

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Parking Space
Christian Seibert

The Trouble with University Compacts
Steven Schwartz

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Lessons for Regulators
Penny Neal

One Good Big Idea for Water Reform
Scott Hargreaves

The Illegal Pacific, Part 1: Organised Crime
Sue Windybank

INTERVIEW
The Swedish Paradox
Peter Saunders talks with Maria Rankka


  review
 


The Culture of Prosperity
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
By Gregory Clark
Reviewed by Wolfgang Kasper

The Great Depression
The Loss of Sadness: How
Psychiatry Turned Normal Sorrow
into Depressive Disorder
By Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Reviewed by Will Wilkinson

 

  book_review
 


The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers
By Frank Vibert
Reviewed by Darryn Jensen

The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
By Tim Harford
Reviewed by Hugh Morley

Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market
By Anne Manne
Reviewed by Jessica Brown

The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
By Mark Lilla
Reviewed by Michael Warby

Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again
By David Frum
Reviewed by Martin Sheehan

The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
By Stephen A. Marglin
Reviewed by William Coleman


 
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