Who Benefits While You Pay?
6 August 2019 • Ron Manners AO
When any orthodox economist from the Democratic Land of Oz talks of policies designed in the ‘public interest’ or the ‘national interest’, I …
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Earlier governments made mistakes too
4 July 2019 • Ron Manners AO
Much attention is focused on the current catalogue of defective policy decisions by Australia’s Federal Government. July 4 marks the 21st anniversary of the …
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Public Choice Theory explains how Western values are being eroded
6 June 2019 • Ron Manners AO
Being an optimist, I am enjoying the many signs of “sprouting concern” about the destructive influence of the “long march” through our institutions …
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All that jazz
7 January 2019 • Ron Manners AO
This was a speech given at UWA's ECOMS function in 2008. I'm with the band One of the most satisfying experiences I've had …
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Let Public Choice Theory solve political puzzles
1 May 2018 • Ron Manners AO
The good news is that an accredited Public Choice Theory course will be available from The University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle …
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Aussie rules and economics
3 April 2018 • Ron Manners AO
Once at an economics conference I got into a lively discussion. We compared last century to an AFL game. Split into four quarters, …
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Do you want a ‘strong’ dollar or a ‘weak’ dollar?
27 February 2018 • Ron Manners AO
Which is best? Each day we read of special interest groups demanding government policies that will deliver either a ‘strong’ or ‘weak’ dollar. They …
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Henry Hazlitt and the broken window
28 November 2017 • Ron Manners AO
Regarding Henry Hazlitt Born on this day on 1894, Henry Hazlitt was the original economic journalist. He wrote about economics for a bunch …
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Why attend Mannkal’s Western Civilisation Conference?
26 October 2017 • Ron Manners AO
A good question and you have a right to ask. Any observer, of Australia’s current pre-occupation with trivia and its avoidance of the …
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Choosing between two economic styles
29 January 2013 • Ron Manners AO
The golden rule Mitchell’s Golden Rule explains that when the private sector grows faster than government, prosperity increases and when government grows faster …
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