deregulation of public service type infrastructure industries. In recent years, Australia's industry reform policies have … critically relied on rapid deregulation of major utilities such as telecommunication, gas and electricity. Although several … industries have been deregulated in the last two decades, our understanding regarding the impact of deregulation on residential …

This paper examines the responses of the Australian Retailers' Association to the deregulation of industrial relations …. The acceptance of enterprise bargaining both by employers and trade unions in Australia calls into question the ongoing … than 46 per cent of private sector employment in Australia. In the regulated industrial relations environment of the 1970s …

The economic theory that motivated the deregulation and privatization of the US electricity industry is seriously … neoclassical theory, monopoly should be preferred to competition. Second, while proponents of deregulation expected market … flawed in three crucial ways. First, the Marshallian theory of the firm is based on two mathematical errors which, when …

in-depth interviews were conducted on fifty-four software firms in Australia and the findings discussed. …

attending naturopathy and WHM practitioners in Australia; and (iii) focus group research carried out with Victorian consumers. …