Or so says a report released by Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Melbourne.
Aparantly they surveyed some literature showing that prices acutually rose in the years following cartel presecution in the states (disclaimer: I’ve only read a description of this report somewhere else!).
Seams to be a classic case of correlation vs causation to me, but as mentioned above I haven’t actually read the paper. The author is an economist who is the head of the “Deregulation” unit……
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Matt Nolan says:
January 22, 2009 at 11:21 am (UTC 12 )
“The author is an economist who is the head of the “Deregulation” unit……”
Got to love vested interests
agnitio says:
January 22, 2009 at 11:49 am (UTC 12 )
I was implying no such thing:P
Matt Nolan says:
January 22, 2009 at 12:06 pm (UTC 12 )
You might not have been – but I’m a big fan of vested interests. It gives me papers to write about on the blog
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