Disturbance to groundwater systems by the Coal Seam Gas industry pose a potential threat to irrigators particularly in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Analysing legislation from several different perspectives, including that of CSG mining and water rights, finds that the regulatory...

Previous articles have sought to demonstrate that markets fail in the shaping of preferences. With no recognized property rights in an agent’s preferences, they are too seldom changed for the better (as judged by the agent) and too often changed for the worse. This paper addresses the question...

In this paper the "two-selves" models of self-imposed constraints are shown to carry normative implications only when the present-self acts to restrict the freedom of a future-self whose ability to act rationally has been clearly compromised. Conversely, when this future-self, if unrestrained,...

Experiences as a student of psychology and economics led me to question the second-class status of the non-testable. Attention to ‘being’ was insignificant relative to attention given to ‘doing’. Religion and philosophy seemed better suited to capture the internal struggle over one’s...