40 Million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited - Productivity Commission Richard Snape Lecture
Inaugural Richard Snape Lecture
On 30 October 2003, Professor Max Corden gave the Inaugural Richard Snape Lecture, 40 Million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited, at the Productivity Commission's office in Melbourne.
Richard Hal Snape was Deputy Chairman of the Productivity Commission and Emeritus Professor of Monash University. He was a Board Member of the Australian Research Council, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword
The conservative approach
The pragmatic approach
The radical approach
Weak arguments for and against a higher population and immigration
Populate or perish
Scale, variety, choice and the tyranny of distance
How many and what kind of immigrants ?
The second generation success story
To summarise
Bibligraphic note
References
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