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An interview with Clem Tisdell
Brian Dollery, Joe WallisClem Tisdell is one of Australia’s pre‐eminent economists who has made decisive contributions in several areas of economics, perhaps most notably development economics…
Discounting, hierarchies, and the social aspects of biodiversity protection
John M. GowdyAmong biologists it is generally recognized that market activity is having a devastating effect on the biological world. The current worldwide loss of biodiversity may be of the…
Geoeconomic time and global warming: renewable energy and conservation policy
Darwin C. HallThe concept of geoeconomic time, introduced here, is based on the interface among economic activity, technology, and geophysical processes. Geoeconomic time is what should frame…
Ecology, environment and resources: contributions of an economist
J.A. SindenProfessor Clem Tisdell has written widely on the application of economics to resolve ecological, environmental and resource problems. Reviews a selection of his papers to identify…
Innovative funding to support biodiversity conservation
Jeffrey A. McNeely, W. Paul WeatherlyArgues that conserving biodiversity requires a combination of policy reform and appropriate economic instruments. Presents policy reforms which would remove the underlying causes…
Traditional production activities and resource sustainability: The case of indigenous societies in Cape York Peninsula, Australia
John Asafu‐AdjayeUndertakes a survey of traditional and non‐traditional production activities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland…
Sustainable income: extending some Tisdell considerations to macroeconomic analyses
Dodo J. Thampapillai, Hans‐Erik UhlinThe depreciation of environmental capital is internalized within a simple Keynesian framework to permit the determination of sustainable income. The framework is empirically…
Sustainable development: passing fad or potential reality?
R. SathiendrakumarRaises the question, how can sustainable development be achieved and what are the limiting constraints in achieving it? Focuses on key conceptual issues of “sustainable…
The APEC experiment: an open economic association in the Asia Pacific
Peter Drysdale, Andrew ElekPresents an essay on Asia Pacific Economic Co‐operation (APEC), an innovative and flexible form of co‐operation designed to accommodate the diversity of the economies on the…
Trade, growth and welfare in a natural resource‐rich country
Peter HallAsks how hard should a small natural resource‐rich (NRR) country try to escape from a path of economic development which has been shaped by its physical resource endowments, a…
The characteristics of decision making in a well‐functioning economy
Louis HaddadDiscusses the concept of a well‐functioning economy and attempts to define its principal properties. Examines some aspects of rules of decision making that are essential for the…
Property rights and environmental management on Pacific atolls
Colin HuntArgues that the serious environmental degradation occurring in two “low island” Pacific states, Kiribati and Tuvalu, can be directly attributed to the lack of allocation of rights…
Some reflections on the international waste trade and emerging nations
David L. McKeeRecent years have seen the emergence of a new industry dealing in the international disposal of garbage and various forms of waste. Emerging nations have become disposal sites for…
The origins of private property and wealth in post‐communist society
Tomas J.F. RihaThroughout history, social philosophers have justified titles of possession by the right of occupation, labour, and social contract, while the economic justification rests on…
Some implications of external labour mobility for the development of micro‐states
Malcolm Treadgold, Patrick LaplagneUses a one‐sector model to investigate how external labour mobility can affect the economic performance of micro‐states. In the absence of restrictions on labour market flows…
Estimating environmental health benefits: implications for social decision making
Jane V. HallDiscusses the measurement and conceptual difficulties of assessing the benefits of environmental improvements in monetary terms, in the context of a study undertaken to evaluate…
Social issues in spatial economics
R.C. JensenProvides a focus on the significance of the spatial dimension in economics and the principal questions and issues which accompany considerations of the spatial dimension…
Deregulation and the welfare of the less well off
J.W. NevileDeregulation in Australia has had adverse effects on the income of those at the bottom end of the income distribution. Over the 1980s the share in private income of the top…
Egoism: Adam Smith’s theory and Chinese traditional ideologies compared
Cao YangEgoism as a moral philosophy of market economy in Adam Smith’s system is rational not ultra. It benefits not only other people but also the society led by an invisible hand. The…
Dissent from choice theory: implications for environmental decision making
Luca TacconiShows the importance of heeding Clem Tisdell’s call to devote attention to values and to consider further the limitations of unbounded rationality models in economic research…
Is national transferable quota an economic policy option?
Yoshihiro KuronumaExamines one of the hypothetical economic policy options for international fisheries management, namely a national transferable quota (NTQ). Special emphasis will be placed on an…
The socio‐economic time dimension in Talmudic literature
Roman A. OhrensteinAttempts to analyse some of the aspects of economic time as presented in biblical and apocryphal sources, and as debated in the Talmudic tomes. Also asks, what is time and what is…
Have women lost out in the development process?: Some evidence from rural Bangladesh
Nilufar Jahan, Mohammad AlauddinInvestigates the impact of agrarian change on women in Bangladesh. In recent decades, especially since the introduction of seed‐fertilizer‐irrigation technology (Green…
Public crime, private punishment: prison privatization in Queensland
Glyn EdwardsQueensland’s first private prison became operational in January 1990 under contract to Corrections Corporation of Australia. The major reason for privatization was to attempt to…
Socio‐economic reforms in China’s rural health sector: Economic behaviour and incentives of village doctors
Sukhan Jackson, Liu Xili, Song JinduoThe post‐1978 micro‐economic reforms have dismantled China’s community‐funded rural health system, relying on paramedics called “barefoot doctors”. Examines the economic behaviour…
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