Classical liberals should support the free movement of people.

If the population of Australia reaches 36 million by 2050, it will be a direct consequence of migration policy. A growing population threatens our quality of life, warns Bob Birrell.

Development and zoning laws run contrary to private and public interests.

Freedom is about more than just the absence of government.

Tolerance is important but difficult to define and easily subverted.

Minimum wage decisions should take into account all costs to the employer and all benefits to the employee.

Despite strong opposition and economic and political risks, the federal government continues to support mandatory filtering of the internet, seeking to establish a ‘Great Firewall of Australia.’

With better design, federalism can still bring government closer to voters.

Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish political scientist whose first book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001), received international attention for applying statistics from recognised sources to challenge the widely held belief that the environment is progressively getting worse. In January 2010, Lomborg was interviewed by Joel Malan, an Australian now living in Copenhagen.

Nowadays, few academics write books on contemporary educational problems; fewer still analyse the socio-historical context of these problems.

For an author whose novels have consistently sold in the hundreds of thousands for more than half a century, Ayn Rand is a remarkably understudied figure. Stephen Kirchner reviews books by Anne Heller and Jennifer Burns.

Investors, politicians and government officials alike delude themselves that the latest boom is justified and will last: that ‘this time is different.’ According to Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, excessive debt accumulation often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom.

The formation of the first national and united Liberal Party in the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 led to the first two-party (Liberal/Labor) national election in 1910. Confusion is the most thorough attempt so far to understand its significance, says David Kemp.

Margaret Fitzherbert’s new book So Many Firsts tracks the political achievements of Australian Liberal women, their political representation, their significant impact on government policies, and their many hard won legislated freedoms in the second half of the twentieth century.

Sam Tanenhaus’s The Death of Conservatism is a history of ‘movement conservatism,’ from its rise in post-War America to its death in the 2008 US presidential election.

Richard Morgan’s Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis is a response to the financial crisis and the reactions that viewed it as a manifestation of greed encouraged and exacerbated by free markets.

Forced disappearances, political corruption, ethnic cleansing: Prosecuting Heads of State surveys the egregious governance practices that led to the eventual prosecution of kleptocrats and despots from across the globe.

Veteran economist William Baumol has long pushed the boundaries of neo-classical economics. In The Free Market Innovation Machine, he focuses on possible explanations of modern economic growth.