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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...
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Canberra’s fiscal ticking bomb
John Kehoe, Tom SwitzerFebruary 15, 2024
Join us on March 13 for a breakfast conversation with John Kehoe, exploring the challenges...
Adam Smith and Why He Matters Today
Paul Oslington, David M. HartDecember 7, 2023OP199
Adam Smith, the Scottish philosopher and economist, is one of the most significant figures to...
Debunking Degrowth
Gene TunnySeptember 7, 2023AP54
In a country with a growing population, such as Australia, a policy of degrowth would...
‘Greedflation’ myth hides real causes of inflation
Simon CowanAugust 12, 2023CANBERRA TIMES

With much fanfare this week, the ACTU initiated an “Inquiry into price gouging and unfair...

A Future Without Future Funds
Dimitri BurshteinAugust 10, 2023PP52

In 1984, Milton Friedman reminded us that “there is nothing so permanent as a temporary...

Setting the Record Straight: Free Trade and the WTO
David RobertsonSeptember 4, 2000IA15

By allowing social issues into the WTO agenda using tenuous links to trade policy, the...

How Markets Work: Disequilibrium, Entrepreneurship and Discovery
Israel KirznerOctober 12, 1999OP64

Mainstream economic theory starts from the assumption of ‘equilibrium’, under which markets are perfectly competitive....

Reconnecting Compassion and Charity
Roger KerrJanuary 1, 1999OP67

Supporters of big government and the welfare state regularly accuse their opponents of lacking ‘compassion’....

Rear Vision on Trade Policy: Wrong Way, Go Forward
Ron DuncanSeptember 25, 1998IA5

Pig farmers seeking to stop imports of pork into Australia are standing candidates in 15...

Reforming Central Banking
Stephen KirchnerMarch 1, 1997PM36

   

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Markets, Morals and Community
October 1, 1996OP59

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

The Euro monster
Oliver Marc HartwichDecember 2, 2010Business Spectator

  Over the past three years we have had to get used to numbers with...

Attacks on banks are misdirected
Stephen KirchnerNovember 18, 2010The Australian

In August 2006, the Reserve Bank of Australia raised interest rates as part of its...

Aussie banker bashing
Stephen KirchnerNovember 17, 2010The Wall Street Journal

Bankers have never been popular, especially in the wake of the global financial crisis, as...

Europe’s most dangerous man
Oliver Marc HartwichNovember 11, 2010Business Spectator

Ahead of the G20 summit in Seoul this week, the mood music between member countries...

The EU’s win-win losers
Oliver Marc HartwichNovember 4, 2010Business Spectator

A good compromise is one that leaves everybody equally unhappy. Seen from this angle, last...

World debt crisis needs strong action, now
Robert CarlingOctober 14, 2010The Age (Business)

Many advanced northern hemisphere countries are now either in a state of fiscal deficit/debt crisis...

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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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