Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2011

Appraising the ACCC's Caltex-Mobil Decision: An Alternative Measure of Competition Based on Networks pp. 5-20

Harry Bloch and Nick Wills-Johnson

Economics, Economists and Public Policy in Australia pp. 21-30

Gary Banks

More Guns Without Less Butter: Improving Australian Defence Efficiency pp. 31-54

Henry Ergas and Mark Thomson

A Defence of Contemporary Economics: Zombie Economics in Review pp. 55-86

Stephen Williamson

The Australian Conference of Economists at 40: The State It's In pp. 87-110

Alex Millmow

Jim Davidson, A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock (University of New South Wales Press, 2010) pp. 111-116

Selwyn Cornish

Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd (eds), Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics (Edward Elgar, 2010) pp. 117-119

Robert Breunig

Volume 18, issue 2, 2011

The Platypus Economist pp. 3-6

Eric Crampton

Prevention No Cure: A Critique of the Report of Australia's National Preventative Health Taskforce pp. 7-26

Mark Harrison and Alex Robson

The Analytics of the Australian Private Health Insurance Rebate and the Medicare Levy Surcharge pp. 27-48

Alex Robson, Henry Ergas and Francesco Paolucci

Removing Duplication in Public/Private Health Insurance in Australia: Opting Out With Risk-adjusted Subsidies? pp. 49-70

Francesco Paolucci, James R. G. Butler and Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven

The Introduction of Ex-ante Risk Equalisation in the Australian Private Health Insurance Market: A First Step pp. 71-92

Francesco Paolucci and Amir Shmueli

Volume 18, issue 1, 2011

Stimulusgate pp. 5-12

Sinclair Davidson

In the Long Run, the Multiplier is Dead: Lessons from a Simulation pp. 13-22

Ross Guest and Anthony Makin

China's Fiscal Stimulus and the Recession Australia Never Had: Is a Growth Slowdown Now Inevitable? pp. 23-34

Creina Day

An Accelerator Tied to a Brake: Fiscal Stimulus Under a Floating Exchange Rate pp. 35-40

Tom Valentine

The Benefits (and Costs) of Foresight and Hindsight in Macro Policy Formulation pp. 41-52

Nigel Stapledon

Trends in Emissions across the States of Australia 1998-99 to 2007-08: A Shift-share Analysis pp. 53-68

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Ying Liu

New Technologies in Higher Education: Lower Attendance and Worse Learning Outcomes? pp. 69-84

Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, Juergen Meinecke and José Rodrigues-Neto

The Peculiar Economics of Government Policy towards Sport pp. 85-100

Richard Pomfret and John K. Wilson

Quiet Alf pp. 101-106

Graeme Wells

Volume 17, issue 2, 2010

Did Australia's Fiscal Stimulus Counter Recession?: Evidence from the National Accounts pp. 5-16

Anthony Makin

How to Increase the Cost-effectiveness of Water Reform and Environmental Flows in the Murray-Darling Basin pp. 17-40

R. Quentin Grafton

The High Cost of Taxi Regulation, with Special Reference to Sydney pp. 41-72

Peter Abelson

An Economic Unravelling of the Precautionary Principle: The Queensland Wild Rivers Act 2005 pp. 73-94

Stephen Iles and Gary Johns

Donald Moggridge (ed.), Keynes on the Wireless(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) pp. 95-98

Selwyn Cornish

Roger Alford, Life and LSE (Book Guild Publishing, 2009) pp. 100-102

Selwyn Cornish

Volume 17, issue 1, 2010

Fairness in Public-utility Regulation: A Theory pp. 5-32

Darryl Biggar

Formulating Policy Responses to Global Warming in the Face of Uncertainty pp. 33-54

Harry Clarke

A New Mind-set for Exchange Rates pp. 55-62

Stephen Grenville

Reflections on 'A Tax System for New Zealand's Future' pp. 63-76

John Creedy

How US Economists Got It So Wrong pp. 77-82

Ross McLeod

Froth and Bubble: The Inconsistency of Paul Krugman's Macroeconomic Analysis pp. 83-88

Don Harding and Jan Libich

Beyond Krugman to Behavioural Keynes pp. 89-94

Ian McDonald

Krugman on the Malaise of Modern Macro: Critique Without Alternative pp. 95-100

Keith Rankin

What Keynes Missed and Krugman is Missing: The Short/Long Choice pp. 101-112

David Vines

Beauty =/= Truth? Thoughts on Krugman's "How did economists get it so wrong?" pp. 113-120

John Quiggin

Yegor Gaidar: Pragmatic Economist or Romantic Revolutionary? pp. 121-132

Gennadi Kazakevitch

Peter Groenewegen, Educating for Business, Public Service and the Social Sciences: A History of Economics at the University of Sydney 1920-1999, and Balanced Growth: A History of the Department of Economics, the University of Melbourne by Ross Williams (ed.) pp. 133-138

Selwyn Cornish

John H. Wood, A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 139-142

Selwyn Cornish

Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Little Brown Book Group, 2006) pp. 143-146

Matthew Pollock

Volume 16, issue 4, 2009

The ‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ Scheme: A Test Drive of Draft Journal Weights with New Zealand Data pp. 7-24

David Anderson and John Tressler

Fiscal ‘stimulus’: A loanable funds critique pp. 25-36

Anthony Makin

An excess of access: An examination of Part IIIA of the Australian Trade Practices Act pp. 37-66

Henry Ergas

A ‘no-returns tax system’ for Australia: Some inconvenient facts pp. 67-82

Sinclair Davidson

The book cannot stand on its own as an accurate portrait pp. 83-88

Peter Groenewegen

The permanent need for political economy pp. 89-100

Rod O’Donnell

By the end of the book I was none the wiser pp. 101-106

John Hawkins

Seeking the elusive town and gown dialogue: the inaugural Australian Economic Forum pp. 107-116

Ross Guest

George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Animal Spirits. How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, And Why It Matters For Global Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2009) pp. 117-122

Selwyn Cornish

Vernon Smith, Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms (Cambridge University Press, 2008) pp. 123-125

Declan Trott

Volume 16, issue 3, 2009

Multi-Criteria Analysis: "Good Enough" for Government Work? pp. 7-30

Leo Dobes and Jeffrey Bennett

In Defence of Cost-Benefit Analysis pp. 31-40

Henry Ergas

Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Impact Assessments pp. 41-50

Mark Harrison

Advancing Accountability in Government pp. 51-54

Tony Harris

Switch on the Data: Changes Needed for Access to Public-Sector Information pp. 55-62

Roxanne Missingham

Can Better Political Governance Give Australia an Improved Political Class? pp. 63-70

Andrew Murray

Error and Design: Economics in (and some Economics of) the Australian Competition Tribunal pp. 71-94

Henry Ergas

The Global Credit Crisis: Why Have Australian Banks Been So Remarkably Resilient? pp. 95-112

Kim Hawtrey

Fiddling With the Digital TV Tuner: Recent Adjustments to a Poor Policy pp. 113-134

Franco Papandrea

Volume 16, issue 2, 2009

The Bank Deposit and Wholesale Guarantees of 12 October 2008: An Appraisal pp. 5-20

Warren Hogan

Providing Aged Care: The Case for Reform pp. 21-44

Henry Ergas

Water and Wastewater Services in Non-Metropolitan New South Wales: A Critical Analysis of the Report of the Independent Inquiry pp. 45-60

Brian Dollery

“The power of simple theory and important facts”: A Conversation with Bob Gregory pp. 61-92

William Coleman

Robert Shiller, The Subprime Solution (Princeton University Press, 2008) pp. 93-94

Declan Trott

John A. Alic, Trillions For Military Technology: How The Pentagon Innovates And Why It Costs So Much (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) pp. 95-98

Henry Ergas

Volume 16, issue 1, 2009

Two Decades of Murray-Darling Water Management: A River of Funding, a Trickle of Achievement pp. 5-24

Lisa Lee and Tiho Ancev

The new Basel Capital Accord: A major advance at a turbulent time pp. 25-44

Chris Terry

The paradox of national water savings: A critique of “Water for the Future” pp. 45-62

Lin Crase and Suzanne O’Keefe

Peter Karmel: A tribute pp. 63-66

Geoffrey Harcourt

Helen Suzman: The hour brings forth the woman pp. 67-72

John Nieuwenhuysen

Bruce Chapman (ed.), Government Managing Risk: Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Progress (Routledge, London, 2006) pp. 73-76

Chris Jones

Timothy Kehoe & Edward Prescott (eds), Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007) pp. 77-78

Declan Trott

Infrastructure Australia, A Report to the Council of Australian Governments pp. 79-82

Henry Ergas

Susanne Warning, The Economic Analysis of Universities: Strategic Groups and Positioning (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007) pp. 83-86

Maria Racionero