IPA Review- November 2013

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. Hell hath no fury like an National Security Agency operative scorned, it would seem, after it emerged recently that several employees of the American intelligence agency had spied on ex-lovers over the past decade. They even had a codename for

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Dr Julie Novak. Recent generations of economists have been trained under the neoclassical approach to economic thought, providing distinctive perspectives concerning both the principles of economic behaviour and practical implications as to how to view, and indeed, change the world. The most

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, James Bolt. On the inside cover of this book, Tom Palmer, a recent guest of the IPA in Australia, is introduced as someone who has lived his life by one ideal: ‘Liberty is for everyone.’ In addition to fuelling his academic life, the

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. British Conservative MP Jesse Norman has written an excellent book about Edmund Burke. It is a book in two parts, the first a reasonably straightforward biography of the subject and the second an analysis of his ideas, with a

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Development Coordinator at the IPA, Lydia Bevege. We can thank Charles Dickens for the way the term ‘Industrial Revolution’ brings to mind the image of a grimy-faced Oliver Twist or a hungry David Copperfield roaming the mean, dirty streets of London. In fact, Dickens’ portrayal of

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is wriiten by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Dr Julie Novak. In early September, the global economics profession was met with the unwelcome news that British economist Ronald Coase, father of the ‘law and economics’ school and leading figure of the ‘new institutional economics’ paradigm, passed away in his adopted home

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Researcher at the IPA, Peter Gregory. Following the horrific Rana Plaza building collapse in April which claimed over 1,100 lives, western retailers who source their garments from Bangladesh have been the subject of public vitriol. This is misguided. These companies have been a part of Bangladesh’s

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is by Adjunct Research Fellow at Central Queensland University, Dr Jennifer Marohasy and Professorial Research Fellow at Central Queensland University, Dr John Abbot. The classical liberal, like the ordinary Australian, has a general aversion to revolutionary change. This is justified in the spheres of politics and economics. When it

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Stewart Franks. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of the science of climate change is the lack of any real substance in attempts to justify the hypothesis. Often the occurrence of a drought or flood is sufficient to generate a whole range of expert speculation from those

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of the Legal Rights Project at the IPA, Simon Breheny. In May 2011, a United Nations Special Rapporteur declared that people had a human right to internet access. It seems absurd to argue that such a right exists but it is the logical progression of

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is written by Director of Policy at the IPA, Chris Berg. When Simon Crean announced his retirement in March this year—off the back of an abortive Kevin Rudd spill—he said that of the 23 years he had spent in politics, the last three years had been the toughest. It

This article from the November 2013 edition of the IPA Review is by editor, James Peterson. Conventional wisdom suggests that the Republican Party’s decision to ‘shut down’ the US government for sixteen days in October was a catastrophic political blunder. Key proponents of the shutdown, like Texas Senator Ted Cruz, as well as conservative and libertarian organisations such as Heritage