Tag: Australia over-regulation

  • Australia’s Red Tape Crisis: The Causes and Costs of Over-regulation

    A co-edited book with Connor Court (co-edited with Chris Berg)

    Red tape costs the Australian economy as much as $176 billion a year. Governments create and enforce thousands of regulations on our workplaces and our communities. These rules slow and prevent businesses forming, people from flourishing, new technologies from being adopted, and hold back Australia’s global competitiveness. Australia’s Red Tape Crisis is an exploration into the economics, politics and culture of over-regulation. How should we structure our federation to achieve reform? (more…)