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The IPA is committed to the advancement of free market ideas. Free markets encourage innovation, wealth and the allieviation of poverty. Here you will find the IPA's work on free market economics, the role of govenrment in an economy, and how to lift people out of poverty.

A Shift In Monetary Policy Won’t Work Miracles

Mikayla Novak 5 September 2016 Finance and economics, Opinion,

A nominal GDP target for central banks isn’t without merit, but a monetary fix won’t be a cure-all for our economic problems. Given these chaotic days of unorthodox monetary policy...

Strangling The Goose With The Golden Egg

Rebecca Weiser 1 September 2016 Finance and economics, Publications,

Why we need to cut superannuation taxes on Middle Australia. The purpose of the retirement income system should be to enable Australians to maintain in retirement the living standards they achieve...

Opinion

Still A Strong Case For Keeping Privatisation In The Reform Tool Kit

Mikayla Novak 22 August 2016 Finance and economics, Government services,

Despite recent concerns raised by the head of Australia’s competition watchdog, privatisation remains a viable reform option. Even though it has been firmly established as a modern economic...

Opinion

Annastacia Palaszczuk And The Latest City-Country Divide

Evan Mulholland 19 August 2016 Environment and agriculture, Finance and economics,

Nothing reveals the clear divide between inner city and regional Queensland than the long, tumultuous history of land clearing. The Palaszczuk government’s now failed changes to native...

Finance and Economics

In Defence of the British Nation State- the Australian Case for Brexit

IPA Review Started 1 August 2016 Finance and economics,

On 23 June 2016, the British people made a landmark decision to leave the European Union with the Leave vote winning by 52% to Remain’s 48%. The referendum had a turnout of 71.8%—the highest...

Now Not The Time To Retreat From Health Reform

Mikayla Novak 22 July 2016 Finance and economics, Government services,

The politically effective Mediscare campaign is a powerful reminder of Australia’s growing reluctance to pursue health sector reform. With the 2016 federal election result favouring the...

Opinion

Malcolm Turnbull Is Set On Making Super Another ETS Moment For Himself

John Roskam 15 July 2016 Finance and economics, Opinion,

In 2009 as the leader of the opposition Malcolm Turnbull supported the introduction of an emissions trading scheme. He maintained his support for an ETS in the face of overwhelming opposition from...

Opinion

Protectionists Do Australia No Favours

Mikayla Novak 8 July 2016 Finance and economics, Foreign affairs and trade,

The federal Parliament is now stacked with politicians peddling anti-globalisation agendas contrary to Australia’s interests. The underlying motivations for the Turnbull government to call...

Finance and Economics

Foreign Capital Inc.

Arthur Moore Started 1 April 2016 Finance and economics,

Decisions by international corporations to invest in Australian economic sectors, such as agriculture, housing, and energy no doubt affect employment and more importantly, the lifestyles and...

Research Papers

What Politicians Need To Know About Negative Gearing

Sinclair Davidson 20 February 2016 Finance and economics, Planning and housing,

• Low and middle income earners benefit most from negative gearing. To abolish negative gearing would make investment more difficult for low and middle income earners. • 80 per cent of Australians...

When in Rome: Taxes and Outrage in Ancient Rome

Stephanie Forrest Started 18 December 2015 Finance and economics, Western civilisation,

This article first appeared in the December 2015 edition of the IPA Review: Over the course of Rome’s long history, taxation was frequently a source of outrage and grief. Indeed there is a basic...

The Case for Personal Income Taxation Cuts

Darcy Allen Started 5 December 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

Tax reform would benefit by following one simple motif: don’t tax what you want more of. It follows that cutting income tax rates should be a boon for the Australian economy-freeing up...

Finance and Economics

Economics: An Art or a Science?

Sinclair Davidson Started 1 December 2015 Finance and economics,

Many of Dani Rodrik’s arguments are standard defences of the economics discipline. What is new is the suggestion that economics can remain a science even if it does not follow the scientific...

Finance and Economics

Poverty’s Berlin Wall Moment

Peter Gregory Started 1 December 2015 Finance and economics,

2015 was a Berlin Wall moment in the f ght against global poverty. To continue to view government funded foreign aid as the spearhead of the fight against poverty would be immoral, according to...

Finance and Economics

New Money

Darcy Allen Started 1 August 2015 Finance and economics,

When governments lavishly print money, citizens are helplessly left watching their savings erode. This is the cost of centralised government monopoly over currency. But cryptocurrencies, such as...

Finance and Economics

In the Beginning…

Chris Berg and John Roskam Started 1 August 2015 Finance and economics,

Why the Magna Carta? The question of what is special about the Magna Carta goes to the heart of any discussion about the enduring significance of what happened at Runnymede in June 1215. The Magna...

Finance and Economics

Free Markets and Tolerance

Peter Gregory Started 1 August 2015 Finance and economics,

If you’re an avid reader of the IPA’s Hey…What did I miss, you would have come across a recent article in The Conversation claiming Adam Smith was racist. In the opening sentence of The Wealth of...

Finance and Economics

When Monopolies Work

Mikayla Novak Started 1 May 2015 Finance and economics, Government services,

When one of the leading participants in the development of the digital economy writes a book about the essences of business management, entrepreneurship, and innovation in the modern world, it...

Finance and Economics

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