“"Excellent." "Spot on", "first class", etc. All this flattering back-slapping for Oliver is getting boring. Not one dissenting voice, picking out all the holes in his argument. For example.... Damn. I can't see any holes either. Nice work, Oliver.” Reader comment, Business Spectator, 17 August 2011 “Oliver Hartwich, a highly talented researcher at the Centre for Independent Studies in Australia.” Roger Kerr CNZM, Executive Director New Zealand Business Roundtable, 6 July 2011 “Let me say to Oliver: welcome to Australia. I hope you get your permanent residence. I think we all feel we need you.” “[T]he debate about the rights of future generations, excellently summarized recently by O. M. Hartwich, “The Rights of the Future,” Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2009; www.oliver-marc-hartwich.com/publications/the-rights-of-the-future. I agree with him that “the very idea that there are some resources that we have borrowed from the future leads us into a logical dead-end” (p. 7). The question he raises: “Do we owe the future generations a specific set of resources? Or do we simply owe them our best efforts to leave them a free and prosperous society in which they can make their own choices?” (p. 8) is very appropriate. It is, of course, not only about resources, it is about intertemporal decision-making in general. I am also convinced that the best thing we can do now is to leave our successors a free and democratic society.” “Oliver Hartwich is a rare bird: an economist with a sense of humour. There must be something in the water cooler at the Centre for Independent Studies.” “There were a handful of notable exceptions. Oliver Marc Hartwich
from the Centre for Independent Studies, for example, wrote a lengthy
paper in response arguing that Rudd had mischaracterised neo-liberalism.
In fact, insisted Hartwich, the kind of commercial behaviour that
triggered the financial crisis was caused by the abandonment of
neo-liberal thought. In Hartwich's view, neo-liberalism was
actually quite close to the very thing Rudd was suggesting as a solution
to the financial crisis: a middle path between rampant capitalism and
communism. This was a welcome intervention, but overwhelmingly the
concept of neo-liberalism itself went unexamined in a frenzy of
Left/Right trench warfare.” “A recent
report by Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich and Jennifer Buckingham called On the
Right Track: Why NSW Needs Business Class Rail focused on quality of
service. The report, published by the Centre for Independent Studies in October
this year, proposes the introduction of a new business class on intercity rail
services. ... I draw the attention of the House to the significant points
raised.” “Hartwich’s
intellectual-historical excursion makes worthwhile reading in the current
climate.” “When Hassle Means Help is a superb
assessment of welfare reform in several countries.” “I would thoroughly recommend the Policy
Exchange report on welfare reform. It is
well worth reading.” “This
collection of essays from the British think tank Policy Exchange is an
excellent defence of scientific inquiry in all of the major policy debates, and
it should be on every A-level student’s reading list. … The Policy Exchange’s
own enterprising polymath and co-editor Oliver Marc Hartwich rounds off the
book with a valuable explanation of the science of climate change, showing the
difference between the science and its interpretation. ... Consensus, he says,
is a concept at odds with science, which is inherently sceptical to all its
provisional findings.” David Willets MP, The Financial Times, 30 November 2005 “The very
model of the good think tank publication. … It is hugely challenging - and
perhaps paradigm-shifting in the conclusions. … It is also extremely well and
accessibly written, and excellently produced and presented.” “Superb” ... “Outstanding” “Brilliant” “Evans and
Hartwich explain why Great Britain has the ‘oldest, pokiest and at the same time
costliest’ housing supply.” “Their
thesis is simple, and spicily evidenced … Robust statistics are offered to back
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