Archived publication for 2007
Recent publications
Developing Australia's non-fossil fuel energy industry: Costs of measures targeting carbon emissions
Economic Regulation of Transport Facilities
Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment Bill 2007
WorkChoices has been a politically contentious reform to workplace relations in Australia primarily because the Australian union movement has run a successful marketing campaign against the reforms.
The abuse of economic terminology
Victoria's Public Transport: Assessing the results of privatisation
In April 1997, the Kennett Government announced that Victoria's public transport services would be privatised. Based on the evidence in this landmark study, Melbourne's public transport system can be judged as a reasonable success. On the basis of...
Land Regulations, Housing Prices and Productivity
Land costs are incorporated in most commercial activities. Hence, beyond the direct effects on housing and commercial property, measures that raise the price of land have a pervasive effect in raising costs throughout the economy. An important...
Flannery of the Overflow
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him on the Murray, years ago, He was boating when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just on spec, addressed as follows, ‘Flannery, of The...
Amending TRIPS: Protecting Property Rights and Public Health.
Submission to the DFAT review of the TRIPS and Public Health Amendment
Volume 59 Number 1
Chris Berg & Andrew Kemp discovers Islam's free market economics, Alan Moran tells a regulatory fable, Louise Staley asks why governments hate bed & breakfasts, Andrew Norton finds problems in the Happy State and much more...
Islam and the free market
American strategy in the Islamic world has been aimed at the establishment of political democracy-a worthy goal, but a worryingly incomplete one. Social and political freedom cannot be fully established unless they are united with the other pillar...