New Urbanism is a recent American reform approach to urban development, which attempts to reduce car dependence through traditional design qualities such as connected streets with paths, higher density and mix with local centres. The Western Australian State Government has developed 'Liveable...

In this issue of the Policy Review Section , Stephen Hall and Brendan Nevin of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, review the experiences of the first three rounds of the Single Regeneration Budget and against that background consider the next steps in the...

This brief article examines the contributions of Piero Sraffa to th e theory of imperfect competition, in the light of the approach to imperfect competition taken by modern general equilibrium theorists. For the latter, perfect competition is a state of affairs that comprises optimizing agents,...

Australian university research output has been questioned by the Federal Government. A new research funding system is soon to be introduced which is likely to place a heavier weight on publications. Although the importance of publications is not disputed, the article argues that there is no...