This paper assesses critically recent proposals for tax reform of superannuation in Australia against criteria of efficiency, equity, administrative complexity and revenue impact. The main conclusion reached is to support the general thrust of reform, including the removal of multi-stage...

In late 2003 and early 2004 the Economic Society of Australia surveyed the Heads of Economics Departments in Australia to determine their views on three main issues: student standards, major factors affecting these standards, and policy implications. This paper describes the main results of the...

The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the efforts to fashion a central bank in Burma during the years in which the country was a province of British India. Throughout this period, which lasted from 1886 to 1937, questions of money and finance in Burma were mostly the preserve of the Raj...

The Fisher hypothesis has been a much debated topic. Over the years the hypothesis debated and the techniques used have changed. While the majority of early studies on the Fisher effect concentrated primarily on confirming the long and distributed lag in expectations formation, subsequent work...

A stochastic frontier model incorporating inefficiency effects has been employed to analyse the efficiency of agricultural production in the Central Region of Thailand. The agricultural land area, the number of people employed in the agricultural sector, and the amount of fertilisers used in...

Examining George Stigler's teaching career clarifies the requirements for an effective teacher of graduate economics and especially sheds light on the nature of Ph.D. supervision. The heterogeneous composition of graduate students in aggregate means that quite distinct approaches can prove to be...

Piecemeal reform methodology is used to identify Pareto improving directions of gifts in the economy studied by L. Kranich, "Gift Equilibria and Pareto Optimality Reconsidered", Journal of Economic Theory, 64, 1994, pp. 298-300.

Should someone who is regarded as a good writer also be a clear writer, especially in subjects such as economics, philosophy and politics? This paper examines the interaction between certain of Keynes's characteristics as a writer and the clarity of his writings. Its central thesis is that lack...

George Stigler, as much if not more than his colleague Milton Friedman, greatly shaped the direction of economics in the post-war era. Part of his ability to do so lay in his critical responses to views that opposed his own fiercely held framework. This paper attempts to supply a consistent...