Archived publication for 1996
Recent publications

Soaking the Poor: Discriminatory Taxation of Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Alan Moran

Soaking the Poor is an apt description of the effects of very high taxes on a narrow range of products that tend to represent a greater share of the consumption of the less well-off. The taxes lift fully 10 per cent of the income of the poorest...

Retail Competition in the NSW Electricity Market

ENERGY FORUM PAPER | Alan Moran

View in HTML

Smokescreen: 'Passive Smoking' and Public Policy

OCCASIONAL PAPER | John Luik

Bad science is incompetent science, science that has unconsciously failed to do its work properly in some essential sense. Corrupt science, on the other hand, is bogus science, science that knows that its data misrepresent reality and its...