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
- The Global Financial Crisis
- Deregulation Unit
- Work Reform and Productivity Unit
- Housing: The Great Australian Dream Project
- Energy
- Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit
- Trade & IP Unit
- Northern Australia Project
News
Baby boomers retire on a reverse inheritance
If baby boomers want choice in their retirement, they should be prepared to spend their own money. Earlier this month, Germany's ruling Christian...
Reward welfare a recipe for entitlement culture
Joe Hockey has been badly verballed. His widely reported speech about Western entitlement culture, delivered in London last week, contains...
Keep Green policies out of business
The Greens' strategy to build a business constituency will be successful, at least among the Australian and multinational companies whose rent...
Not such a super idea
The Federal Government's plan to increase compulsory superannuation contributions from 9% to 12% is economically dubious and morally questionable....
Earth Hour: the Majesty of Failure
All those darkened buildings, all that hype about switching off to save the planet! How successful is the tidal wave of support demonstrating our...
State debt will rise despite budget cuts next month
Next month will see the release of state and federal budgets with both focusing on lower deficits. The Commonwealth's spending cuts will include...
Counting the costs of higher taxes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jnr famously said that he liked paying income tax: it was the price of civilisation. Sure, he bought his civilisation at...
Tap our rich CSG reserves
Coal-seam gas is developing as a bonanza for Australia and specifically for Queensland. Notwithstanding considerable pressure from anti-development...
Queensland election result and fiscal policy
The postmortem of the state election result has begun in earnest, with many issues already bandied about as factors explaining Queensland Labor's...
Price Labor will pay for pricing carbon keeps rising
Legislating the carbon tax only exacerbates Labor's existing crisis of relevance. And it's not because of a lack of trust over a broken promise....
