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Online Edition: Issue I Volume I 15.NOVEMBER.2000 PREVIOUS CONTENT INDEX

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The following major articles from past issues are available by email or in hard copy at $3. Most back issues are available at $8 a copy, plus postage and handling.

Issue 23 The RMA - where are we now? The Lucky Generation - why todayıs young people are the luckiest who have ever lived. Growth Management and New Urbanism - what the Americanıs have Learned. By Randall OıToole. The Creative Matrix - by Virginia Postrel (Includes review of The Future and its Enemies.}

Issue 22 Which Came First ­ the property chicken or the democracy egg? Business, Training and the Academy Venture Capital ­ what governments can do.

Issue 21 The Anti-Growth Forum - the blind leading the naive. Real World Transport ­ the case for mobility. Lessons from the Dismal Science

Issue 20 Our Cultural Heritage - too valuable to be so badly managed. The High Price of Subdiphobia The Economic Significance of Manicures ­ Virginia Postrel (edited version)

Issue 19 A Plague of Bossy Boots - there has to be a better way (RMA) Different Folks ­ In Praise of Ecological Democracy. The Nature of Reality - Obituary for Isaiah Berlin.

Issue 18 Why Freedom Works ­ Free markets need free people Hawking ­ the wheel chair scientist. Who is the Enemy ­ the RMA, the Councils or the Universities?

Issue 17 The RMA ­ the vision and the Reality. Tribalism ­the threat to Modernity by Roger Sandall. The Metro Plan ­ an Expensive Import by Randall OıToole.

Issue 16 Karl Popper ­ tribalism in Christchurch Environmental Law ­ a litany unexpected outcomes. The Environmental Utopians - their magical manifesto. Christianity ­ lost faith or lost cause?

Issue 15 Les Indigenes ­ first arrivals or last to arrive? Land Use ­ the cost of regulation. Education, choice and justice.

Issue 14 Re-inventing the University Thomas Sowell - the New Zealand connection. Pulp Fiction ­ the great petrol scare.

Issue 13 The Revolution that Worked ­ and the threat of MMP. Canada ­ the way we were? Global Warming ­ what consensus? Euthanasia ­ the slippery slope?

Issue 12 Re-Inventing Labour Socialism without the State The Romantic Revival

Issue 11 The End of the Kiwi Bach? Privacy and Property Rights The Invasion of the Butterflies

Issue 10 The Risk Society - history reborn. Why Music? And why Maths? Homeopathy ­ witchcraft for our times.

Issue 9 The Curse of Natureıs Bounty Jim Anderton ­ a modern Macbeth. New Truths from Popular Culture

Issue 8 Greenhouse Madness Whose Environment is it anyhow? Remember the Good Old Days? Marrying for Money: the ethics of academia

Issue 7 Lies, Damned Lied and Greenpeace. The Electronic Purse: private currency? e-Money­ the end of income tax?

Issue 6 Free Speech ­ the most sacred right? Getting the Signals right for Crime. Where have all the Dollars Gone? ­ why wives have to work.

Issue 5 Women: Winners of Reform. Solving Sole Parenting Poverty The China Syndrome: why friends fall out.

Issue 4 Defending the Faith: the broadcasting dilemma The 20th Century: the age of the victim? Confucian Culture: cohesion not complaint.

Issue 3 The Challenge to Reason Tahiti: and economic testing ground Beyond Full Employment: dependency lives. Can the West stand up to the East?

Issue 2 Greens Yes! Greenshirts No! Democracy versus Money Markets

Issue 1 By the Left - the right - or the Centre Why Sustainable Development Makes no Sense Womenıs Gains - who should take the credit?


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