Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform

1994 - 2017

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Volume 2, issue 4, 1995

APEC: Regionalism, Globalism, or Obfuscation? pp. 399-409

George Fane

New Zealand’s ‘Light-Handed’ Approach to Utility Regulation pp. 411-422

Alan E. Bollard and Michael Pickford

Guaranteeing Access to Essential Infrastructure pp. 423-431

Stephen King

‘You Couldn’t Give It Away’: Privatising the Australian National Line pp. 433-444

Keith Trace

New Zealand’s System of Citizens Initiated Referenda pp. 445-454

Wayne Mapp

Ontario’s Employment Equity Legislation: An Act Not to Follow pp. 455-466

Saul Fridman

Television Stations’ Compliance with Australian Content Regulation pp. 467-478

Franco Papandrea

Beyond Picking Winners? Recent Writings on Australia’s Industry Policy pp. 479-488

Heather Smith

William Baumol’s Contributions to Public Utility Economics pp. 489-493

Robert Albon

The Wealth Cycle and Macroeconomic Policy pp. 494-497

Anthony Makin

The New Interventionism: Dan Corry, David Souter & Michael Waterson, Regulating Our Utilities, Institute for Public Policy Research, London, 1994; Michael Beesley (ed.), Regulating Utilities: The Way Forward, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 1994 pp. 499-501

Tony Makin

Roads Leading Nowhere: Reuven Brenner, Labyrinths of Prosperity: Economic Follies, Democratic Remedies, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994 pp. 502-504

Michael James

Promoting Agricultural Research: Derek Tribe, Feeding and Greening the World: The Role of International Agricultural Research, CAB International in association with the Crawford Fund for Agricultural Research, Wallingford, 1994 pp. 505-507

Grant Scobie

The Closing of the Australian Mind?: Alan Barcan, Sociological Theory and Educational Reality, NSW University Press, Sydney, 1993 pp. 508-510

Brian Crittenden

Decultured Paternity: David Blankenborn, Fatherless America: Confronting our most urgent social problem, Basic Books, New York, 1995 pp. 511-512

Brian T. Trainor

Terrified of the World?: Graeme Campbell & Mark Uhlmann, Australia Betrayed: How Australian democracy has been undermined and our naive trust betrayed, Foundation Press, Perth, 1995 pp. 513-514

Mark Schubert

Correspondence pp. 515-520

John Langmore and John Quiggin

Getting Value for Money from the Overseas Aid Community pp. 521-524

Ross McLeod

Unpaid Work and Equal Opportunists pp. 525-528

John Logan

Volume 2, issue 3, 1995

The Future of Trans-Tasman Closer Economic Relations pp. 267-280

Peter Lloyd

The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture: A New Order? pp. 281-290

Donald MacLaren

Land Rights and Aboriginal Economic Development: Lessons from the Northern Territory pp. 291-299

Jon Altman

Negotiating Mining Agreements under the Native Title Act 1993 pp. 301-312

Siobhan McKenna

Taking Without Paying: Interpreting Property Rights in Australia’s Constitution pp. 313-320

John Forbes

Putting Derivatives in their Proper Place pp. 321-332

Tom Valentine

Demand Management and Electricity Supply Industry Reform: A Re-evaluation pp. 333-340

Bennett Labson

Attacking Poverty through Microenterprise Financing pp. 341-350

Alexander Agafonoff

The Conservative Revival in America pp. 351-360

Norman Barry

Swapping Debt for Nature pp. 361-365

Brian Dollery, David Schulze and Leigh West

New Zealand’s Experiment in Pricing Access to Essential Facilities pp. 366-370

Mike Ross

Determining the Current Account: A. J. Makin, International Capital Mobility and External Account Determination, Macmillan, London, 1994 pp. 371-373

Warwick McKibbin

Trade and Inequality: Adrian Wood, North-South Trade, Employment and Inequality: Changing Fortunes in a Skill-Driven World, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994 pp. 374-376

Jerome Fahrer

Australia’s Asian Relations: Russell Trood & Deborah McNamara (eds), The Asia-Australia Survey 1994, Centre for the Study o f Australia-Asia Relations, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1994 pp. 377-378

Jenelle Bonnor

A Pioneer Keynesian?: Ross Fitzgerald, ‘Red Tedy: The Life of E. G. Theodore, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1994 pp. 379-380

Tom Valentine

A Premature Post-Mortem?: Keith Windshuttle, The Killing of History: How a discipline is being murdered by literary critics and social theorists, Macleay Press, Sydney, 1994 pp. 381-383

Graeme Davison

The New Ignorance: Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1994 pp. 384-386

Paul Davies

Academicising the Stage: David Williamson, Dead White Males, directed by Wayne Harrison and presented by the Sydney Theatre Company, 1995 pp. 387-388

Roger Sandall

The Multifunction Polis: Australia’s New Infant pp. 389-392

David Pearce

What Are the Social Responsibilities of Banks? pp. 393-396

Ian R. Harper

Volume 2, issue 2, 1995

Choosing a Republican Head of State pp. 135-147

George Winterton

Teaching Introductory Economics pp. 149-158

Paul Heyne

The Faustian Bargain: Government Sponsorship of the Arts pp. 159-167

Austin Gough

Central Bank Independence and Accountability: The New Zealand Case pp. 169-180

Stephen Kirchner

Public Infrastructure and Private Production pp. 181-189

Glenn Otto and Graham Voss

Options for Road Reform in New Zealand pp. 191-198

Bryce Wilkinson

The Industry Commission and the Community Sector pp. 199-209

Mark Lyons

Financing New Zealand’s Tertiary Education: How Much Subsidy? pp. 211-222

Grant Scobie and Alex Duncan

Comment: Financing New Zealand’s Tertiary Education: How Much Subsidy? pp. 223-225

Nancy Devlin, Paul Hansen and Stephen Knowles

Comment: Financing New Zealand’s Tertiary Education: How Much Subsidy? pp. 226-229

Robert Stephens

Rejoinder: Financing New Zealand’s Tertiary Education: How Much Subsidy? pp. 230-232

Grant Scobie and Alex Duncan

A Consumers’ Guide to Recent Critiques of Economics pp. 233-240

Tom Valentine

Why Not Grow Pineapples in Hobart?: Making Choices in Australia’s Schools pp. 241-245

Peter McGregor

How Much Spending? The EPAC Survey of Public Expenditure Preferences in Australia pp. 245-248

James Cox

Old Programs Never Die: Jonathan Rauch, Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government, Times Books, New York, 1994 pp. 249-251

Michael James

Policies Matter: I. M. D. Little, Richard N. Cooper, W. Max Corden and Sarath Rajapatirana, Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries, published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, New York, 1993 pp. 251-253

Grant Scobie

States of Reform: Mike Nahan, Myth and Reality in the Economic Reform Debate, Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, 1994 pp. 254-255

Ross Jones

A Symbolic Issue: M. A. Stephenson and Clive Turner (eds), Australia: Republic or Monarchy. Legal and Constitutional Issues, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1994 pp. 256-258

John Hirst

Do-It-Yourself Labour Market Reform: The Promise of Agency Contracting pp. 259-262

Ken Phillips

Overseas Assembly Provisions: A Hidden Producer Subsidy pp. 262-264

Darren Kennedy

Volume 2, issue 1, 1995

New Zealand’s Fiscal Responsibility Act pp. 3-16

Graham Scott

Ensuring Responsibility in Australian Budgets pp. 17-26

Robert Albon

The Excess Burden of Taxation in New Zealand pp. 27-34

Walter Diewert and Denis A. Lawrence

Health and Welfare: The Third Last Frontier of Microeconomic Reform pp. 35-47

John Paterson

The Struggle Over Teacher Training pp. 49-62

Alan Barcan

Open Streets or Taken for a Ride? Reforming Australia’s Taxi Markets pp. 63-72

Christopher Findlay and David K. Round

Statutory Power and Agricultural Marketing: The New Zealand Experience pp. 73-80

Veronica Jacobsen and Grant Scobie

Getting into Bonds pp. 81-92

Ian R. Harper

Insulating the Technopols: The Politics of Economic Reform: R. H. Bates and A. O. Krueger (eds), Political and Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform, Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., 1993; John Williamson (ed.), The Political Economy of Policy Reform, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 1994 pp. 93-98

R. C. Duncan

Well Being, Welfare and Equality in Australia: Peter Travers and Sue Richardson, Living Decently: Material Well Being in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1993; Peter Saunders, Welfare and Inequality: National and International Perspectives on the Australian Welfare State, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1994 pp. 99-104

James Cox

Western Australia’s Labour Market Reforms pp. 105-109

Brendan McCarthy

The Arts End of the World: Creating a Creative Nation? pp. 110-112

Michael Harris

Policy Entrepreneurs vs the Professors: Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations, Norton, New York, 1994 pp. 113-115

Michael James

The Paradox of Demand: Edmund Phelps, Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Assets, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1994 pp. 116-118

Martin Parkinson

Planning in One City: J. Brian McLoughlin, Shaping Melbourne’s Future: Town Planning, the State and Civil Society, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1992 pp. 119-120

Tony Sorensen

An Incomplete Revolution?: Richard Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-Tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution, 1931-1983, HarperCollins, London, 1994 pp. 121-123

Michael James

Machoeconomics: Steven E. Landsburg, The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life, The Free Press, New York, 1993 pp. 124-125

Ross Parish

The Lysterfield Avenue of Honour pp. 127-129

Shaun Patrick Kenaelly