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The Very Idea of a Flat Tax

Lauchlan Chipman · October 29, 2004 · PM66

Arguments about the desirability of this or that taxation measure or policy invariably involve assertions about their incentive effects on …
What Governments Can’t Know: The Knowledge Economy and the Market

Lauchlan Chipman · February 4, 2002 · OP77

Are governments well placed to foster the infusion of different types of complex knowledge to create new or better goods …
Traditions of Liberalism: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill

Lauchlan Chipman, Knud Haakonssen, Shirley Robin Letwin , John Gray, C. L. Ten, Kenneth Minogue, , , , · September 1, 1988 · R8

Liberalism is a notoriously ambiguous concept. More than anything, this has led to persistent historical contests for the idea. Thus, …
Liberty, Justice and the Market

Lauchlan Chipman · September 26, 1981 · OP6

Professor Chipman challenges some views which have become orthodox in academic and intellectual circles and subsequently throughout society. They concern the relationship between …
Liberty, Equality and Unhappiness

Lauchlan Chipman · September 26, 1978 · OP1

The first in the series of Occasional Papers. Professor Chipman uses in experience in the field of education to illustrate …

Flat-out making some proportional changes

Lauchlan Chipman · November 17, 2004 · The Newcastle Herald

OF the many assumptions behind Australia’s taxation system, two stand out. One is that personal income is one of the …
High time to look at equitable version of flat tax

Lauchlan Chipman · November 4, 2004 · The Australian Financial Review

In an interview before the election on October 9, Prime Minister John Howard agreed Australia’s highest marginal rate of personal …
Paying for a future by degrees

Lauchlan Chipman · October 24, 2001

To the best of my knowledge, no government in the world has privatised education. Yet the arguments for privatising education, …