People & associates
John Hyde
Project Western Australia: A Growth and Productivity Agenda for the Next Government
The need for sound economic reform never ends. But there has never been a more important time than now. In this important volume, John Hyde and Andrew Pickford pull together the most important priorities for the next government of...
Cato's letter 1: The grand old paradigm
The Global Financial Crisis-first the US housing bubble, then the failure of investors to understand the instruments they bought, and then many authorities in many counties insuring that private investors did not bear the consequences of...
Selections from A Political Rakes Progress
Constituents Make yourself seen by knocking every door. Reject that offer of a paramour. Well, press their interests in the Parliament And never ever cross the folk you represent. For so say they: so says your party too. Both claim your...
Tomorrow's Reform
When reasoned defence of our successful institutions gives way to Chavinism and vested interests, the prospects for continuing reform are bleak.
Tea Break or Mad Hatter's Tea Party?
In a globalized world, there is no excuse for a 'tea-break' from reform- our security, broadly defined, depends on it being maintained and extended.
Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom Extended
"A person in the publishing trade from whom I sought advice with the publication of Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom observed that it was 'A thesis not a book' and recommended that I should cut it by half. I accepted what I have no doubt was...
What the Economic Rationalists (Dries) Really Believed
What the Dries really believed (as opposed to what their demonizing opponents said) is necessary if we are to understand the long-term interplay between public policy and performance.
Drugs: Time for a Rethink
Of course the legal provision of highly addictive drugs is risky. But so too is the refusal to consider carefully the arguments in its favour.
Clough Lecture 2001: The High Price of Reform Fatigue
We set up the economic conditions after 2010 today The 2001 Harold Clough Lecture The transcript of the lecture is available here.
The Role of Dry Philosophy
It may not offer a vision splendid, but there's no denying the power of liberalism as a philosphy.