by William Mitchell | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
The recent Commonwealth Treasury Debt Management Review highlights the damaging divide among ‘progressive economists’ in Australia when it comes to macroeconomic analysis. This fracture is greater than the things that bind us and helps the neo-liberal...
by Stuart Macintyre | Dec 29, 2002 | Papers
Nation-building in the antipodes, 1901 & 2001Throughout the past year Australians have been marking the centenary of their nation-state. The program of commemorative events has included a re-enactment of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in Sydney on the first...
by Tony Aspromourgos | Dec 18, 2002 | Papers
This seminar addresses the fact that – due to a sequence of budget surpluses, but more importantly, actual and prospective privatisations – Commonwealth public debt could be extinguished in Australia in the next five years or so, and the current Treasurer...
by George Orwell | Dec 18, 2002 | Papers
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilisation is decadent, and our language – so the argument runs...
by Martha Nussbaum | Dec 18, 2002 | Papers
John Rawls is the most distinguished moral and political philosopher of our age. Initially isolated in a world of Anglo-American philosophy preoccupied with questions of logic and language, Rawls played a major role in reviving an interest in the substantive questions...
by Frank Stilwell | Dec 18, 2002 | Papers
Politicians in this neoliberal era are wont to boast of their commitment to the reduction of debt. Peter Costello is now talking of zero debt for the Commonwealth government, thereby effectively eradicating the market for Australian government bonds. Meanwhile, other...
