Economics & Deregulation
Economics & Deregulation
Economic policy research has been a core area of the Institute of Public Affairs since the IPA was founded in 1943. The IPA examines state and federal tax, spending and regulatory initiatives, looking carefully at the unintended consequences of government intervention in the economy. Of particular interest are tax reform, government spending, industrial relations, trade liberalisation, economic freedom, physical and intellectual property rights and regulation.
Sub-topics of Economics & Deregulation
- Productivity and Employment Unit
- The Global Financial Crisis
- Deregulation Unit
- Work Reform Unit
- Housing: The Great Australian Dream Project
- Energy
- Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
- Trade & IP Unit
News
The cost of fighting the cost of living
Despite both major parties claiming they'll fight to stop increases in the cost of living, neither are likely to deliver with the parliament...
Replace this partisan Treasury with an independent budget office
The independents have asked for Treasury briefings and advice on ALP and Coalition policy as part of their decision-making process. At face value...
Power struggle leaves mining tax in flux
With a hung parliament delivering rounds of political horse-trading between the two major parties and independents over the next days and weeks,...
Green protectionist folly
Under environmental disguises, industry and labor unions are running parallel campaigns with environmentalists seeking to roll back free trade. For...
Clunky approach to carbon reduction policies
Labor's wasteful and tokenistic "cash for clunkers" subsidy to scrap old cars is one of the few carbon emission reduction policy announcements this...
Free trade infected by 'green protectionism'
Unions and industry that want to roll back the progress of free trade increasingly are using environmental causes as a disguise. For years...
Publications
Does more equal really mean all better?
The criticisms of market capitalism have changed over the past two centuries. The writings of Marx and Engels in the nineteenth century emphasised that the private ownership of the means of production benefited the bourgeoisie at the expense of...
Kevin Rudd's darkest days
Kevin Rudd spent a fair amount of his intellectual capacity drubbing Friedrich von Hayek. Two major speeches given to the Centre for Independent Studies put the boot into Hayek who had also featured prominently in Ruddite essays deploring free...
Economists as social engineers
In this paper, I make the argument that modern "mainstream" economic thought is inclined towards government intervention and social engineering. To the extent that economic analysis is seen simply as a tool it is likely that economists will...
