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
Abbott's hollow agenda
Tony Abbott needs to be careful It's one thing for him to be cautious. But it's another thing when he starts ruling out policies which are based on...
Summit must tackle Commonwealth-state powers
The debate at today's tax forum between the Commonwealth and states over taxing powers is one we need to have. This is because, as NSW Treasurer...
Flat tax leads to fairness
Giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. That was the response of the highest-ranking...
Award is work of many men
Sir Isaac Newton, that great creature of the Scientific Revolution, once humbly declared, ``If I have seen further it is by standing on the...
Australia's Future Fund: a complex beast of good and bad
Beneath the heat of current public debate there is little light being shed on some important policy issues. This week the story broke that the...
The case against the carbon tax
In a leaked briefing, UK Prime Minister David Cameron's energy adviser warned him that British carbon abatement policies would raise electricity...
Union tax plan a recipe that will weigh us down
The ACTU doesn't deliver the full picture on how much we're taxed. The ACTU's recipe for national taxation reform will merely serve to weigh down...
Handouts favour the few
Craig Thomson isn't Tirath Khemlani - but he may as well be. A government clinging to office by a seat engulfed in a scandal involving trade unions...
Make-up solutions wear thin
Blaming mining and the high Australian dollar for manufacturing's recent woes risks missing the point of what is really needed to get the troubled...
Europe's doomed euro
Few people predicted the global financial crisis. Everybody predicted the crisis of the eurozone. Read almost any critique of the euro from just a...
