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Recent publications
Governing the Professions: Does Self-regulation Equal Self-interest?
Though we all respect the professions, there seems no good reason for many of the privileges and uncompetitive practices that surround them.
Industrial Relations Reform: Do the Critics Have a Case?
Deregulation of the labour market is supposed to have created a host of ills for Australian workers. Not according to the evidence, say the head of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
Recanting Greenhouse?
One of the early proponents of 'greenhouse warming' has recently expressed some doubts. But don't count on a recoupling of science and public policy.
Suprise!
Futurists- literary or otherwise- consistantly fail to predict the rich and nuanced features of our lives. Why? Because, obsessed with predictability, they make no allowance for the new, the quirky, the personal. Theirs is a vision without suprise.
Review of Competition Policy
IPA Submission Submission to the Government on the Essential Services Commission
Surrender Is Not a Winning Strategy
Corporations who wave the white flag in the face fo an anti-corporate campaign are simply asking for their attackers to dish it up to them again.
Volume 52 Number 3
Patrick Moore on environmentalism in the 21st century; Virginia Postrel on uncertainty and progress; IR reform; regulating the professions; greenhouse; datacasting policy; book reviews and much more....
Education Reform: Who Should Control the Curriculum?
Over the last 10 to 15 years, education systems across the English-speaking Western world have sought to reduce the power of centralized bureaucracies and to give schools greater autonomy.
Application for Revocation of Coverage of Parts of the Moomba to Sydney Pipeline System
Submission on the NCC Draft Recommendation