The Industrial Relations Act (1991) of New South Wales features an addendum (Chapter 6) which has recently been the subject of a wide ranging review. Chapter 6 provides for regulation of contract rates for those owner-drivers who have an exclusive contract with a particular company. The...

This paper argues in favour of introducing solidarity into economics as a new analytical category of human motivation which encompasses all forms of other-regarding behaviour (e.g. utilitarian altruism, evolved natural sympathy, Kantian imperatives) but which, additionally, can be refined so as...

An experiment with the hawk-dove game showed that if players observe solely an arbitrary and trivial characteristic of their opponent (e.g. a colour label assigned randomly to each player at the outset), a pattern of discrimination may evolve (i.e. those possessing one of the two colours will...