IPA Review- May 2014

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Professor of Institutional Economics at RMIT and Senior Fellow with the IPA, Sinclair Davidson. Friedrich August von Hayek was the greatest and one of the most under-rated classical liberal philosopher(s) of the twentieth century. He won the economics Nobel in 1974 – yet it is fair to say that

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by former Researcher with the IPA’s Legal Rights Project, Vivienne Crompton. Habeas corpus is an ambitious topic to tackle. Its mythic status makes it all too easy for researchers to get romantic about this legendary writ. The eighteenth century jurist Sir William Blackstone described habeas corpus as ‘another Magna Carta’.

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. The presidency of Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921 was not good for the cause of liberty. Wilson was clearly infected by the ‘progressive’ ethos of the era. He was strongly interventionist, pushing for legislation to reduce the length of the standard

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher with the IPA, James Bolt. One scene in Mitt sees the titular figure turn to an aide and declare that the United States “is following the same path as every other great nation, which is we’re following greater government, taxing rich people, promise more stuff to everybody, borrow

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Ian Mence Fellow for Entrepreneurship with the IPA, Dom Talimanidis. ‘The problem with socialism’, Margaret Thatcher once said, ‘is you eventually run out of other people’s money.’ And so it seems this has occurred in France, where the socialist experiment implemented by President François Hollande has, only two years

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Aaron Lane. ‘Cabotage’ describes the practice of restricting ‘coastal shipping’ (i.e. the transportation of goods between two Australian ports) to Australian-flagged ships.  We should forget about further reform – the laws should be repealed. Cabotage laws have existed for coastal shipping in Australia since

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by specialist anesthetist, adjunct lecturer in public health and member of the Australian Medical Association, Michael Keane. Nothing is more expensive than something that is free. This simple adage encapsulates what is truly needed in healthcare reform for the survival of our current system. With ballooning elective surgery waiting lists,

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Professor of Economics at RMIT and Adjunct Fellow with the IPA, Jason Potts. Back in 1988, New Zealand economist Ronnie Horesh was thinking hard about how to fix social policy. Ronnie believed that the most effective catalyst for the generation of wealth was self-interest, and that this could be

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, Brendan Pearson. The American literary critic Lionel Trilling once sounded a warning about the risks of the ‘preening moral righteousness’ that is relevant many of today’s environmental campaigners and the complaisant international aid bodies influenced and intimidated by them. Trilling wrote

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow with the IPA, Aaron Lane. If the carbon tax was “socialism masquerading as environmentalism”, then the Abbott government’s Direct Action plan must be corporatism. It relies on big government using big regulation to pick big corporate winners. The irony is that it will be introduced just as

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow with the IPA, Richard Allsop. If you have not had some sort of contact with a humanities department of a university in the past quarter of a century you may not have encountered post-structuralism, or heard of linguistic or cultural turns. Thus, you may be blissfully unaware

This article from the May 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Policy Director at the IPA, Chris Berg. Tim Wilson, formerly of the Institute of Public Affairs, will make an excellent human rights commissioner on the Australian Human Rights Commission. But let’s hope he is the last human rights commissioner. As the Attorney General George Brandis pointed out when he