Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform

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Volume 4, issue 4, 1997

The Quest for Quality in Universities pp. 399-406

Lewis Evans

Perspectives on Growth: Implications for Asia, Australia and New Zealand pp. 407-418

Timothy M. Devinney and Stephen Kirchner

Rapid Industrialisation in ASEAN: Some Analytical and Policy Lessons pp. 419-432

Hal Hill

Light Rail in Sydney: Some Privatisation Lessons pp. 433-444

Gordon Mills

Reforming Australian Local Government: Forced or Voluntary Amalgamations? pp. 445-453

Brian Dollery

Improving Regulation of the Domestic Content of Australian Television pp. 455-464

Franco Papandrea

The Rise of Judicial Activism in New Zealand pp. 465-474

James Allan

The Equity Premium and the Government Cost of Capital: A Response to Neville Hathaway pp. 475-485

John Quiggin

Rejoinder pp. 486-488

Neville Hathaway

The Schick Report: Evaluating State Sector Reform in New Zealand: Allen Schick, The Spirit of Reform: Managing the New Zealand State Sector in a Time of Change, State Services Commission, Wellington, 1996 pp. 489-494

Joe Wallis

China’s Strategie Preferences: Alastair Iain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995 pp. 495-504

Eric Jones

Taking the Short View: William Foster, Immigration and the Australian Economy (second edition), Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996 pp. 505-507

Harry Clarke

Liberalism’s Moral Lacuna: Charles K. Rowley (ed.), The Political Economy of the Minimal State, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1996 pp. 508-510

John Rogers

New Approaches to Child Protection: Dorothy Scott and Di 0 ’Neil, Beyond Child Rescue: Developing Family-Centred Practice at St Luke’s, Allen & Unwin in association with the Institute of Public Affairs, Sydney, 1996 pp. 511-512

Agnes-Mary Brooke

Blaming the System: Graeme Hunt, Scandal at Cave Creek: A Shocking Failure in Public Accountability, Wellington Publications Ltd in association with the National Business Review, Auckland, 1996 pp. 513-514

Mike Beverland

Facts and Values, Science and Art: Peter Groenewegen (ed.), Economics and Ethics?, Routledge, London, 1996 pp. 515-517

Charles Richardson

Rent-seeking in the Sciences: Terence Kealey, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1996 pp. 518-520

Eric Jones

The Alice Springs-Darwin Rail Line: National Development Project or Political Gesture? pp. 521-528

Keith Trace

Volume 4, issue 3, 1997

The Welfare State and the Good Society pp. 267-284

James Cox

Setting the Reserve Bank’s Inflation Target: The New Zealand Debate pp. 285-296

Paul Dalziel

Making Fiscal Policy Flexibly Independent of Government pp. 297-307

Nicholas Gruen

Unbundling Australia’s Utility Regulation pp. 309-315

Bennett Labson

Can Credit Unions Survive in Australia? pp. 317-327

Kevin Davis

New Zealand’s First MMP Election pp. 329-340

Alan McRobie

Complexity and the Law: Richard Epstein’s Profound Case for Simplicity: Richard Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1995 pp. 341-350

Suri Ratnapala

The New Zealand Model of Economic Reform: A Review: Brian Silverstone, Alan Bollard and Ralph Lattimore (eds), A Study of Economic Reform: The Case of New Zealand, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1996; Lewis Evans, Arthur Grimes and Bryce Wilkinson with David Teece, ‘Economic Reform in New Zealand 1984-95: The Pursuit of Efficiency’, Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 34 (December 1996), pp. 1856-1902 pp. 351-364

Winton Bates

A Vision of Trans-Tasman Cooperation pp. 365-370

Roger Hallam

Electronic Money and Regulatory Responses pp. 371-378

Stephen Rimmer and Ravi Prasad

Not Filling the Gap: Stephen King and Rodney Maddock, Unlocking the Infrastructure: The Reform of Public Utilities in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996 pp. 379-381

Robert Albon

Competition and Monopoly in Public Utilities: Megan Richardson (ed.), Deregulation of Public Utilities: Current Issues and Perspectives, Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, 1996 pp. 382-384

Alan Moran

Conservatives or Radicals?: Ernest Gellner, Anthropology and Politics: Revolutions in the Sacred Grove, Blackwell, Oxford, 1995 pp. 385-387

Roger Sandall

Correspondence pp. 389-390

Ross Parish

Censorship and Maturity pp. 391-396

Michael Warby

Volume 4, issue 2, 1997

Reciprocity and Protectionism in Australia’s Trade Policy pp. 135-142

David Robertson

Promoting Efficiency and Contestability in Australia’s Ports pp. 143-154

Keith Trace

Privatisation and the Government Cost of Capital pp. 155-164

Neville Hathaway

Options for Reforming Australia’s Indirect Taxes pp. 165-176

John Freebairn

Economic Liberalisation and Manufacturing Productivity in Nepal pp. 177-184

Kishor Sharma

The ‘New Economics’ of the Minimum: Wage? Evidence from New Zealand: David Card and Alan B. Krueger, Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995 pp. 185-196

Tim Maloney

Irrational Expectations? John Quiggin’s Critique of Microeconomic Policy in Australia: John Quiggin, Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996 pp. 197-208

Fred Gruen

Measuring Economic Freedom and Assessing its Benefits: James Gwartney, Robert Lawson and Walter Block, Economic Freedom of the World, 1975-1995, The Fraser Institute, Vancouver, 1996 pp. 209-216

David Henderson

The Wik Decision: Judicial Activism or Conventional Ruling? pp. 217-223

Pamela O’Connor

How Land Titling Promotes Prosperity in Developing Countries pp. 225-230

Ray Trewin

Deadweight Loss and the Cost of Public Funds in Australia pp. 231-236

Harry Campbell

In Search of the True Republic: Patrick O ’Brien, The People’s Case: Democratic and Anti-Democratic Ideas in Australia’s Constitutional Debate, Constitutional Press, Perth, 1996 pp. 237-240

Rudolf Plehwe

Anthropology on Trial: Chris Kenny, Women’s Business, Duffy & Snellgrove, Sydney, 1996 pp. 241-243

Roger Sandall

Eminence Green: Bob Brown and Peter Singer, The Greens, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1996 pp. 244-245

Cathy Buchanan

Japan, The West and The Rest: John P. Powelson, Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994 pp. 246-248

Pierre van der Eng

Correspondence pp. 249-252

Jill Walker and Luke Woodward

Does Australia Really Need the ABC? pp. 253-258

Ross Jones

Not Calling the Tune: Australian Taxpayer Subsidies to Parties’ Election Campaigns pp. 259-263

Ian Farrow

Volume 4, issue 1, 1997

Treating Australia’s Health Insurance System: Palliatives or Radical Surgery? pp. 3-14

Ross McLeod

Prudential Regulation of the Financial System: A Functional Approach pp. 15-28

Warren Hogan and Ian G. Sharpe

Patriotism and Politics in the Marketplace pp. 29-38

Rodney Falvey

Measuring Poverty and Income Inequality in Australia pp. 39-50

Peter Whiteford

The Environment, Information and the Precautionary Principle pp. 51-62

Ian Wills

Export-led Industrialisation, Employment and Equity: The Malaysian Case pp. 63-76

Prema-chandra Athukorala and Jayant Menon

The Media in the Marketplace: M. E. Beesley (ed.), Markets and the Media: Competition, Regulation and the Interests of Consumers, Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 1996 pp. 77-82

Ross Jones

A Welfare Ethos for a Free People?: David G. Green, From Welfare State to Civil Society: Towards Welfare that Works in New Zealand, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Wellington, 1996 pp. 83-88

John Savage

How Different Is The New South Africa? pp. 89-95

Brian Dollery

Allocating Water Rights in New Zealand: The Role of Tradable Permits pp. 96-100

Susan Begg

Repeal the Ban on Drugs in Sport for Fairer Contests and Reduced Health Risks pp. 101-106

Terry Black

The Impact of New Zealand’s Employment Contracts Act: A Response to Rod Lingard pp. 107-111

Chris Eichbaum

Rejoinder pp. 112-114

Rod Lingard

Strengthening Crime Deterrence: Cathy Buchanan and Peter R. Hartley, Controlling Crime in New Zealand, New Zealand Business Roundtable, Wellington, 1996 pp. 115-117

Joe Wallis

Margaret Thatcher Socialist?: Simon Jenkins, Accountable to None: The Tory Nationalization of Britain, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1995 pp. 118-120

Michael James

Defending the Traditional Family: Alan R. Barcan and Patrick O’Flaherty (eds), Family, Education and Society: The Australian Perspective, Academy Press, Canberra, 1995 pp. 121-123

Brian Crittenden

Largely Hayek: Suri Ratnapala and G. A. Moens (eds), Jurisprudence of Liberty, Butterworths, Sydney, 1995 pp. 124-126

Charles Richardson

Saving Australia’s Parrots from the Export Ban pp. 127-132

Brendan Moyle