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• Finance, Banking, Monetary Systems

Our research explains and advocates why a sound financial and monetary system is critical for economic prosperity.

Markets, Morals and Community
October 1, 1996OP59

Few people today doubt the market’s contribution to prosperity, but still there are powerful intellectual...

Failure, Chaos and Leadership: Ingredients of Democratic Reform
Kenneth BaxterAugust 1, 1994OP49

In this Occasional Paper, delivered as a Bert Kelly Lecture in June 1994, Kenneth P....

Should We Worry About the Foreign Debt?
Gary M. White, Max Walsh, Tony Makin, Tom ValentineApril 1, 1994PF11

The question of whether or not the level of Australia’s foreign debt is a matter...

Lessons from the Freiburg School: The Institutional Foundations of Freedom and Prosperity
Wolfgang KasperJuly 1, 1993OP44

West Germany’s post-war economic success was based on the ideas of the ‘Freiburg School,’ a...

Do We Need a Reserve Bank?
Lawrence White, Chris Jones, Bryce WilkinsonJuly 1, 1990PF9

There is much dissatisfaction with the performance of central banks because they have a poor...

Regulating for Competition? Trade Practices Policy in a Changing Economy
Michael JamesDecember 1, 1989

This volume is a record of the combined proceedings of a CIS conference held in...

Millennials and Super: the case for voluntary superannuation
Simon CowanMay 28, 2019PP20
As a result of house prices increases, it has become much harder to save for...
I, Mechanical Pencil: Why a socialist economy can never work
Steven KatesFebruary 6, 2019PP14

Socialism brings poverty and oppression. The ignorance of so many as to why only a...

The Major Bank Levy: We’re all going to be hit
Michael PotterJune 19, 2017RR29

The major bank levy was proposed in the 2017–18 Budget. The levy has numerous flaws...

TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
David Murray AO, Maurice Newman, Simon CowanJuly 1, 2013PF25

TARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30%...

Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock
Robert CarlingSeptember 28, 2012IA134

Australia’s Future Fiscal Shock. Robert Carling is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Independent...

Australia’s future fiscal shock
Robert CarlingSeptember 28, 2012

While Treasurer Wayne Swan goes back to the drawing board to conjure up a wafer-thin...

Wages growth boost would boost government’s election hopes
Simon CowanMay 7, 2022Canberra Times

This week, the Reserve Bank increased interest rates by 0.25%. This comes in response to...

RBA needs to do more to boost economy
Peter TulipNovember 16, 2020Canberra Times

Last week the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to zero and said it...

Why the price of cheap money will always be too high
Warren HoganOctober 29, 2020Financial Review

Next Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to reduce the cash rate to...

Increasing JobSeeker not an open and shut case
Robert CarlingJuly 31, 2020Ideas@theCentre

Should there be a permanent increase in unemployment benefit (now called JobSeeker)? There is widespread...

Tom Switzer - Executive Director Centre for Independent Studies
Note from Tom Switzer
Tom SwitzerApril 2, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

We’re only a few weeks into the coronavirus crisis, and already our intellectual opponents are...

Truth is, not all tax cuts are created equal
John HumphreysOctober 27, 2019The Canberra Times

TREASURY’S flawed tax model has caused the government to underestimate the benefits and overestimate the...

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Submission to the inquiry into the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures Bill
Robert CarlingMay 14, 2024CIS
Submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee in relation to its inquiry into the Better...
Principles and recommendations for tax reform – CIS submission National Reform Summit
Simon Cowan, Robert Carling, Henry ErgasAugust 27, 2015CIS Submission

The slant towards cutting taxes before 2010 was welcome, but for such an approach to...

Submission to the National Commission of Audit
Alexander Philipatos, Jennifer Buckingham OAM, Jeremy Sammut, Robert Carling, Simon Cowan, Stephen Kirchner, Trisha JhaApril 1, 2014T30.08

The federal government’s Commission of Audit (CoA) was established in 2013 to review the performance...

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