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Spring
2003 Contents
PDF versions of each article
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Speed
Traps: Saving Lives or Raising Revenue? (cover
story)
Governments
and police continue to target motorists with more speed cameras
and tougher penalties despite the failure of 'speed kills'
policies, reports Alan Buckingham
Public
Choice: Politics Without Romance
Public
choice theory demonstrates why looking to government to fix
things can often lead to more harm than good, as one of its
leading architects and Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan explains
Health
Sense: When Spending Money Saves Money
It
would cost the government more to allow private health insurance
to dwindle than to continue to support it, reports Ian R.
Harper
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After
Iraq: The Road from Baghdad
In
an exclusive interview for Policy, Victor
Davis Hanson,
speaks with leading Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey about
whether America can remain the world's pre-eminent power, what
is at
stake in the war on terrorism and the high level of goodwill
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Will
New Zealand ever Rejoin ANZUS? Gerald Hensley
Recent
calls to lift the legislative ban on visits by nuclear powered
and armed ships to New Zealand ports have so far fallen on
deaf ears. Relaxing
the ban would mark the first step towards normalising its
estranged relationship with the United States and resuming
its place in the ANZUS alliance. But there is a formidable
weight of inertia to be overcome as
well
as official resistance to any move to change.
Regional
Illusion and Its Aftermath
David Martin Jones
Events
since 1997 have exposed the engagement orthodoxy and the
depiction of 'Asia' as an all-or-nothing project as wishful
thinking. The Howard government has broken with this orthodoxy
to pursue a more realistic and balanced regional policy.
This has caused dismay and apprehension
in
some
media,
academic and official circles.
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A
Manifesto for Misery
Growth Fetish
Clive Hamilton
massively overstates the
well-being losses from a growth-orientated market
economy and glosses over the huge costs of abandoning
growth.
Reviewed by Andrew Norton
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Economics
and its Enemies: Two Centuries of
Anti-Economics
By William Coleman Reviewed by Eric Jones
Hard
Heads, Soft Hearts: A New Reform Agenda for
Australia
Edited by Peter Dawkins and Paul Kelly Reviewed
by Peter Taft
Terror
and Liberalism
By Paul Berman Reviewed by Jeremy Shearmur
Property
Rights: Cooperation, Conflict and Law
Edited by Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesney Reviewed by Jeff Bennett
2001:
The Centenary Election
Edited by John Warhurst and Marian Simms Reviewed by Richard Grant
Adam
Smith's Marketplace of Life
By James R. Otteson Reviewed
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What
Role for Government?
Nic
Frances and Peter Saunders debate whether
government should create one million new jobs to soak up the
unemployed |
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