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High Income Mobility in the US
Letter to the Editor: Antonia Feitz's claims (Letters 1/12) that the bottom 60 per cent of the US population have seen their incomes decline since...
Father of economic rationalism
also published in The West Australian on 17 September 1999 and The Age, 4 October 1999 Who in Australian politics is the father of the reform...
Comfort for the Jobless
The poor are generally getting richer Do we as a society want to lean more towards a European-style model---large, interventionist government with...
Don't hobble our smart food
Over the weekend, tv news showed footage of British consumer activists, clad in white, raiding a farm, bobbies in pursuit, to destroy a genetically...
Decades on, Reid's ideas are triumphant
Also published in the Adelaide Review, August 1999 The anti-globalisation policies pioneered by Alfred Deakin dominated Australian policy during...
Forget the ideology, look at the facts
When humanities academics---historians, political scientists, sociologists---comment on markets, they almost never mention their positive side....
The inside (success) story of free markets
The great economic and political debate of the 20th century has been between central planners and free marketeers. The apparent victors have been...
IMF's Role Bubbles Along
Bubble economies like Australia in the 1960s and Japan in the 1980s occur because of sustained and systematic downplaying of the inherent risks in...
Less Fuss, but Few Gains, as Goose is Plucked
At the Australian Unlimited dinner, the Prime Minister has reminded us, that the GST debate was ignited just before his election to Parliament with...
Saving Budgets
What has the Coalition Government been up to in its Budgets in the last three years? Reading them again it is clear that the single most important...