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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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Who should take the blame for the biofuels tragedy?

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Alan Moran

In Mexico early last year, 75,000 people took to the streets in protest of the increasing cost of basic grain, in what were branded the ‘tortilla riots.' In March 2008, there were food riots in Egypt. And in April, Haitians rioted over the...

Submission to the Green Paper on Australia's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme

SUBMISSION | Alan Moran

Emissions Trading: Towards the biggest economic change in Australian history

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Alan Moran and Chris Berg

‘Placing a limit and a price on emissions will change the things we produce, the way we produce them, and the things we buy', states the Federal Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper, which compares the economic impact...

Water supply options for Melbourne

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Alan Moran

A new single desk for Western Australia?

SUBMISSION | Alan Moran and Louise Staley

Submission to the ACCC interested party consultation in relation to Cooperative Bulk Handling Limited (CBH) exclusive dealing Notification N93439

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Forget intervention, let the correction do its job

Economics & Deregulation | | Alan Moran
The Australian Financial Review 10th October, 2008

The Reserve Bank of Australia has proven itself unable to comprehend, still less to control, the nation's money supply. Like the US Federal...

Change of climate an ill wind for carbon tax

Economics & Deregulation, Food & Environment, Housing: The Great Australian Dream Project and Climate Change | | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 4th October, 2008

THE Wall Street share market crash in October 1929 sparked off the Great Depression in the 1930s. Will Wall Street's latest financial collapse...

Small voice with big ambitions

Economics & Deregulation, Food & Environment and Climate Change | | Alan Moran
The Age 26th September, 2008

Climate change forecasts by scientists are having a dominant influence on policy throughout the world. Politicians and economists have popularised...

Bet your sweet bippee it's a crisis

Economics & Deregulation | | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 20th September, 2008

The meltdown on Wall Street will hit all world economies. The cataclysm follows from bankers combining and repackaging mortgage and other debt to...

It's water torture as jobs evaporate

Economics & Deregulation | | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 6th September, 2008

A great myth of government propaganda is that their activities create jobs. Water Minister Tim Holding recently used our money to commission...