by Peter Griffiths | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
One person, one economist, can get a government to change its policy. I have done it. Often. It is what I do for a living. My book, The Economist’s Tale (Zed Books) shows one case where I did it. This time, I stopped a famine.The White Man’s Graveyard,...
by John Langmore | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, the report of the Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, is an impressive piece of work because of the clarity of the recognition of current problems and their causes, and the...
by Michela Noonan | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
Dialogue versus violenceThe West Papua Project is an initiative of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), a non profit organisation which seeks to facilitate dialogue between individuals, groups and communities. CPACS was established in 1988 as a...
by Stuart Macintyre | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
Nearly one hundred years ago a novel tribunal conducted its first hearing. A diminutive figure with a rasping voice and quick temper rose in a courtroom in Sydney to present a log of claims on behalf of the Merchant Service Guild. Opposing him was the counsel for the...
by Arthur Gietzelt | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
A great AustralianIt is just fifty years, the October Labor Day weekend of 1954, since the Honourable Dr H V Evatt put the spotlight on an incubus, obnoxious and underground group that had for many years white-anted and weakened the labour movement. He put the...
by Edward Fullbrook | Feb 1, 2005 | Papers
What’s wrong with economics?Theories, scientific and otherwise, do not represent the world as it is but rather by highlighting certain aspects of it while leaving others in the dark. It may be the case that two theories highlight the same aspects of some corner...
