IPA Review-November 2014

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Journalist with ‘The Australian’, Christian Kerr. For many Australians, Tony Abbott’s first year in office has been marked by a sense of paradox; a sense of a man in government but not in power, left in limbo by an unpopular budget and a belligerent Senate. For many of

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Senior Fellow at the IPA, Mikayla Novak. The most obvious long-run benefit of the market system —based on the foundations of individual freedom, private property rights, respect for entrepreneurial creativity, and limited government—has been the phenomenon coined by economist Deirdre McCloskey as ‘The Great Enrichment’ of stupendous growth

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Policy Director at the IPA, Chris Berg. The recent release of the review of the National Curriculum in October was a watershed moment in the debate over education in Australia. Their document is a devastating, if low-key, critique of the entire national curriculum project. Donnelly and Wiltshire have

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Peter Gregory. After seventeen years of consulting, investigating, engaging, and drafting, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to enact labelling regulation on the humble breath mint. How on earth did it take that long, you ask? Well firstly because, as the

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Hannah Pandel. A 2012 Lowy Institute poll revealed only 60 per cent of Australians believed ‘democracy is preferable to any other kind of government’. Of the younger generation—those aged between eighteen and 29 years—this figure was only 39 per cent. Professor James Allan’s

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Peter Gregory. Benjamin Powell’s latest book, Out of Poverty, is a brilliant culmination of a decade’s worth of research on sweatshops. Powell, who is director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, provides

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program, Carla Schodde. Keith John Sampson, a mature-aged student from a university in Indianapolis, did nothing more than read a book in public. But in 2007, it cost him his reputation and employment prospects. Following a complaint by his peers, he

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. Rick Perlstein is a writer from the political left who wants to know why, in America in the 60s and 70s, the growing conservative movement was not taken seriously by the liberal establishment. At the time, most pundits agreed with the

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Scholar at the IPA, Stephanie Forrest. Until the 1970s, it was expected that Australian students should read classic literature over the course of several years at school. Since then, the classics have increasingly been pushed out of curricula, with many of them crudely dismissed by teachers as

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by University of South Australia Business School’s Dr Kesten C. Green. In 2007, I was involved in preparing evidence on the impact of a government-mandated disclaimer on consumers for a Florida court case. My colleague, Professor J. Scott Armstrong, and I commissioned fieldworkers to show two advertisements to Florida

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Adjunct Fellow at the IPA and Professor of Economics at RMIT, Jason Potts. Close your eyes and think about innovation in medicine, or innovation in software design or clean energy, or even innovation in pizza delivery: your frontal lobes will flood with dopamine as you contemplate those new

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Researcher at the IPA, Darcy Allen. In the world of innovation, 3D printing is a new kid on the block. What isn’t quite so certain is just how deeply 3D printing’s impact will be on other industries, and who stands to lose from its development. Its potential is

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by research associate at the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre and Adjunct Fellow at the IPA, Tom Switzer. She is the rising star of the left, who attracts rock-star receptions at standing-roomonly campaign rallies across the United States. She gives fiery sermons for economic populism and social

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by CEO of Pristine Forage Technologies, Andrew Lake. In 2013, Groundcover, the magazine of the Australian government’s Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), suggested that average farm costs in major cropping regions have exceeded income in as many as ten of the last fifteen years. There are many factors

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Policy Director at the IPA, Chris Berg, and Senior Fellow at the IPA and Professor of Institutional Economics at RMIT University, Sinclair Davidson. Earlier this year Joe Hockey announced that the upcoming G20 meeting, being hosted in Brisbane in November, has a target of an extra two per

This article from the November 2014 edition of the IPA Review is by Research Fellow at the IPA, Richard Allsop. In the parliamentary term from 1946 to 1949, the Chifley Labor government not only had a comfortable majority in the House of Representatives, but also controlled the senate with an overwhelming 33 to three majority. So if citizens were hoping for