Funding health care – a principled approach
Ian McAuley explains how to give some direction to Australia’s muddle-headed health finance system.
Productivity – a dead end?
Ian McAuley argues that WorkChoices is likely to have a negative impact on productivity: "If labour is cheaper to employ there will be less incentive for firms to ensure workers are employed productively."
Bedtime economics
Ian McAuley reviews 'Gittinomics' by Ross Gittins, a book that demystifies economic theory and Australian policy, yet still manages to keep its place on the bedside table.
Australia’s economy: lucky country, unlucky leadership
The Coalition can't claim credit for our current economic prosperity, argues Ian McAuley. In fact its unwillingness to deal with long-term structural issues is putting our economy on very shaky ground.
Paying for health care
Are taxpayers getting value for money out of Private Health Insurance susbsidies? Ian McAuley looks at the latest OECD data to determine what works in health care financing.
Austrians and Australian public ideas
Ian McAuley detects the influence of Polanyi – the other Austrian economist – in Kevin Rudd’s recent speech to the CIS.
What health care system?
In Ian McAuley'’s address at the launch of ‘Reclaiming Universal Health Care’ he argued that our current health policies are ‘an extraordinary combination of East German bureaucratic intervention and Chicago-style radical libertarian economics’.
How to run a country – into debt
Our debt-shy federal government is keeping the national budget in the black, private utilities in the pink, and the rest of us in the red, writes Ian McAuley
Citizenship and the common wealth
Australian citizenship is a ‘work in progress’, says Ian McAuley, and there’s a lot more work to be done
Superannuation — clever politics, poor policy
A super policy that encourages people to save now and spend later might seem like a good idea, but Ian McAuley explains that removing the tax on superannuation drawings will increase inequities, weaken the...