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Alan Moran

Portrait of Alan Moran

Director, Deregulation Unit

Dr Alan Moran, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, is an economist who has made a specialty of regulatory matters, in particular covering energy, global warming, housing, transport, and competition issues.  He has written three books on these matters delivered dozens of addresses and had over a hundred press articles published.

Alan has worked in a range of positions with the Federal Departments of Trade and Industry and Commerce. He headed up the Commonwealth's Business Regulation Review Unit within the Productivity Commission.  He became the Research Director of the Tasman Institute (now ACIL Tasman) in 1990 where he worked on privatization and environmental economics.  He joined the Victorian Department of Agriculture, Energy and Minerals, in 1994 as Deputy-Secretary of Energy.

He joined the IPA in 1996.

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Commonwealth reform negative value-adding components

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Alan Moran

Programs Identified with Negative Benefits

Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Access Regime

SUBMISSION | Alan Moran

Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the National Access Regime

The Chinese capitalist miracle

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Alan Moran

The Chinese economic miracle is the latest and most comprehensive success story since the end of World War II. Veteran economists Ronald Coase and Ning Wang explain how in the space of three decades one of the world's poorest countries became the...

Inquiry into Clean Energy Amendments

SUBMISSION | Alan Moran

Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee

Resource carbon emissions: How much do Australians wish to pay? How much are they paying?

MEDIA RELEASE | Alan Moran

On July 1 the government is implementing new carbon tax measures. The Institute of Public Affairs commissioned a Galaxy survey to find out how much Australians would pay to avoid the costs of what the government claims will be human induced...

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Surely PM is having a lend of us

Economics & Deregulation | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 17th May, 2013

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in promoting the case for Budget deficits, says, "Imagine a wage earner, John, employed in the same job throughout...

US leads on shale gas, and we ought to follow

Energy | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 18th April, 2013

President Barack Obama's spending and regulatory excesses are battering the US economy. However, notwithstanding government unfriendliness to...

Sale means cash for state and better power for people

Economics & Deregulation and Energy | Alan Moran
Courier Mail 22nd March, 2013

Privatisation has never been popular electorally. There is a range of reasons for this. Many people believe a business that is under political...

Tough task to rein in spending and regulation

Economics & Deregulation | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 22nd March, 2013

Tony Abbott is fleshing out his policies for government. Hard on the heels of repealing the carbon tax and mining taxes, he has nominated spending...

Plenty of fat to trim if leaders get real

Economics & Deregulation | Alan Moran
Canberra Times 22nd March, 2013

Over the past 60 years, Australia, like most Western countries, has seen a very rapid growth in the size of government. Whereas 60 years ago...