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Impact and Outcome of Regulation on the Economy

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Alan Moran, Jennifer Marohasy, Chris Berg, Jim Hoggett and Michael Warby

There is an understandable tendency for people to dismiss 'regulation' as a boring topic for economists. But the effects, for good and ill, of regulation pervade everyday life. Regulation profoundly affects what you can and cannot buy, how much...

The Rewards of Cultural Incompetence

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Michael Warby

Worried by One Nation? Can't understand the backlash from the bush? Time to take a closer look at the cultural dimension of voter resentment.

Fit For the West: The Western Australian Approach to Labour Market Regulation

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Michael Warby

Given the importance of export markets—particularly for the capital-intensive mining industry—to the Western Australian economy, its labour market regulation needs to suit its export-focused economy.

Making Welfare Sustainable

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Michael Warby

Despite policies to improve economic efficiency and better target welfare, the welfare state continues to expand. But it can't do so forever.

Wildlife Stocks

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Michael Warby

Michael Warby interviews John Wamsley.

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Staffer No Last-minute Inclusion

Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit | | Michael Warby
Letter to The Australian 12th April, 2001

Point of clarification to Amanda Meade's otherwise fine article on the IPA conference on the ABC (Bias questions at ABC talkfest, Media, 5/4)....

Response to Cynthia Banham

Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit | | Michael Warby
Sydney Morning Herald 4th April, 2001

Letter to the Editor: While I am delighted that Cynthia Banham, in her piece on the IPA conference on the ABC (The Trouble with Aunty, April 2),...

Club Virtue: The Intelligentsia We Deserve?

| Michael Warby
Adelaide Review 1st April, 2001

Of all the shameless untruths which disfigure Australian public debate, none is greater than the claim or implication that the welfare state is...

The Coalition's Cultural Incompetence

| Michael Warby
Australian Financial Review 12th March, 2001

Part of the problem for the Coalition is that its cultural opponents are shameless liars. It is a lie that there was a 'stolen children' genocide,...

Forget the economy, it's about the culture, stupid

| Michael Warby
Canberra Times 10th March, 2001

Whether in government (Western Australia) or in Opposition (Queensland), the Coalition is being punished. It faces the prospect of One Nation...