by Roy Green | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Investing in the knowledge-based economyWith their narrow accounting focus on the budget deficit, have the Irish government, opposition parties and media commentators lost sight of the bigger picture?Only three years ago, the government announced its commitment in the...
by Robert Manne | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
How Tampa sailed into 2002 To understand Australian politics in 2002, one must begin with the Tampa incident of August, 2001. Tampa not only assured the government of victory in the November election. It also altered the balance of forces in Australia in a fundamental...
by Ron Jacobs | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
You will not die, it’s not poisonI’m listening to Bob Dylan’s newest release, Live 1975. This CD/DVD collection is culled from his Rolling Thunder Tour of 1975. This tour consisted of Dylan, Joan Baez and a travelling troupe of musicians that...
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...
