Australian Economic Review

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What Have We Learned from the Global Financial Crisis?
John Quiggin

Australia's Housing Affordability Crisis
Judith Yates

Review of the Australian Economy 2011–12: A Case of Déjà Vu
Guay C. Lim, Chew Lian Chua, Edda Claus and Viet H. Nguyen

Some Basic Economics of Carbon Taxes
Harry Clarke

Designing a Carbon Price Policy
Peter Lloyd

An applied economics journal with a strong policy orientation, The Australian Economic Review publishes high-quality articles applying economic analysis to a wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic topics relevant to both economic and social policy issues. Produced by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, it is the leading journal of its kind in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. While it is of special interest to Australian academics, students, policy-makers, and others interested in the Australian economy, the journal also considers matters of international interest.

At the current time, the measurement of well-being is the subject of controversy and debate. All the articles in this policy forum are critical of using gross domestic product per capita as a measure of well-being and offer various suggestions for an improved measure:

The Measurement of Well-Being: Introduction
Ian M. McDonald

The Foundations of Well-Being
Jeremy Moss

The Race to Be the Perfect Nation
Juhi Sonrexa and Rob Moodie

Measuring the Kind of Australia We Want: The Australian National Development Index, the Gross Domestic Product and the Global Movement to Redefine Progress
Mike Salvaris

Constructing the Herald/Age – Lateral Economics Index of Australia's Wellbeing
Annette Lancy and Nicholas Gruen

In the article Immigration and School Choice in Australia, Astghik Mavisakalyan finds that Australian-born parents in areas with high migrant populations are more likely to send their children to private schools than Australian-born parents in areas with lower immigrant rates.

This paper formed the basis of the article Private schools used for cultural quarantine published in The Age.

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