About the Book
Markets and Prosperity is a collection of 17 essays from politicians, academics, business leaders and journalists focusing on the need to leverage markets and incentives to solve our most pressing problems.

The goal of the collection is twofold.

First, to gather the combined input of original thinkers representing the broad swath of the free-market polity in Australia, from centre-left rationalists to libertarian ideologues, and highlight the common thread that aligns them: namely the belief that ceteris paribus, markets are a more efficient tool for the allocation of resources than political decision making.

Second, to present bold and original thinking on our country’s problems including housing, tax and the size of government, childcare and climate change.

Contents

Introduction. Harry Stutchbury

1 Australia as a leader in cutting emissions and attracting investment through corporate law. Andrew Bragg

2 Revitalising the Australian childcare sector: The role of federation reform. Jane Buncle

3 Menzies and Free Trade: Lessons for Today. Georgina Downer

4 Are markets anti-social? Craig Emerson

5 The opportunity gap. Jason Falinski

6 Government by the people. Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters

7 What are you doing with my money? If you can’t tell me, you don’t deserve to have it. Robert Holt

8 Tilting at Windmills: Government delusion as the hero in Australia’s future prosperity. Gisele Kapterian

9 We should be so lucky. Andrew Low

10 Reforming our criminal justice system. Evan Mulholland

11 Markets in publicly-funded services – the case of demand-driven university funding. Andrew Norton

12 Fixing housing policy. Aaron Patrick

13 Reforming the states. Chris Rath

14 A country with less regulation will have a smaller government. Gerard Rennick

15 Markets and prosperity Harry Stutchbury

16 A new pathway to prosperity Tom Switzer

17 Common good, not culture wars. Chaneg Torres

Bibliography

About the Editor
Harry Stutchbury is a Management Consultant with Kearney.

He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Commerce and a Masters of Analytics from the University of New South Wales.

He has previously worked as an adviser to State and Federal Liberal politicians.

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